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• TEXAS NEWS

8 Finding hope, getting help

10 Janie Spahr speaks at CoH

13 Uplift Ed has new anti-bullying policy

19 Plans for Nat’l LGBT vets memorial

• LIFE+STYLE

25 Michael Urie returns to Dallas

26 Lesbian burlesque star Lillith Grey

28 Chadi El-Koury’s new dance troupe

32 Upcoming arts season

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6 Pet of the Week

8 News

21 Texas Voices

22 Viewpoints

32 Life+Style

43 Billy Masters

44 Scene

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Navy names new ship after Sally Ride

Dr. Tam O’Shaughnessy, widow of U.S. astro-naut Sally Ride, broke a bottle across the bow ofthe Navy’s new auxiliary general oceanographicresearch (AGOR) vessel, christening it R/V SallyRide (AGOR 28).

During her life, Ride, the first female astronaut,never spoke publicly about being a lesbian. Thatinformation came out after her death in 2012.She and O’Shaughnessy had been together 27years and were married for five years.

Lynn Sherr recently spoke to Dallas Voiceabout her new book about Ride.

— David Taffet

Dallas Red Party taps Drag RacerAdore Delano, DJ Patrick Kuzara

The Dallas Red Foundation and Pride Phar-macy will host the 6th annual Red Party, afundraiser for Legacy Counseling and FoundersCottage, on Friday, Sept. 19. And RuPaul’s DragRace Season 6 winner Adore Delano will be thefeatured entertainment.

Adore will perform alongside New York DJPatrick Kuzara at The Globe, a venue west ofDowntown, on the kickoff to Pride Weekend.Tickets are $59 until Aug. 22, then $69 after.Tickets at the door will be $80 (if available).Some special VIP tickets will also be available.Watch the announcement video below.

— Arnold Wayne Jones

LGBT groups join forces for school supplies drive

Rainbow LULAC has teamed up with Re-source Center, Stonewall Democrats of Dallas,AIDS Healthcare Foundation and CongregationBeth El Binah for a school supplies drive forDISD students at 7-9 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 21at Havana, 4006 Cedar Springs Road.

Dallas City Councilmen Adam Medrano andPhilip Kingston and Dallas County SchoolsTrustee Omar Narvaez will be on hand to collectthe supplies. Crayons, 3-ring binders, backpacks, 5-subject notebooks, pens, pencils andwriting tablets are among the supplies needed.

Supplies can be dropped off that night at Ha-

vana or during the businessday at Dallas Voice, 4145Travis, Third Floor throughAug. 22.

— David Taffet

16 LGBT rights organizations express grief over Michael Brown death

Human Rights Campaign,Soulforce and the NationalCenter for TransgenderEquality are among 16 LGBTorganizations signed onto anopen letter decrying the tragic

murder of Michael Brown, an unarmed, 18 yearold black man killed by a police officer this weekin Ferguson, Missouri.

The accounts of the incident differ, but it’s asobering reminder, according to the August 12letter, of the all too familiar experience of harass-ment and violence toward marginalized commu-nities.

The 16 organizations denounced the brutalityand called on “the national and local media tobe responsible and steadfast in their coverage ofthis story and others like it — racialized killingsthat have marred this nation since the beginningof its history.” See a copy of the letter here.

The St. Louis suburb has been in turmoil fol-lowing his death. Numerous leaders and organi-zations have called for investigations amidst theongoing anger and violence sweeping the city.Attorney General Eric Holder said he hasopened an investigation.

— James Russell

Got a new healthcare plan? Learn more about it at this event

The city of Dallas and Enroll Dallas Coalitionwill host “Got Healthcare? Get Educated,” anevent designed to help those with new health-care plans understand their benefits, from 10a.m. to noon, Saturday, Aug. 16, at the WestDallas Multipurpose Center, 2828 Fish TrapRoad.

Dallas city officials noted that more than700,000 Texans signed up for a healthcare planunder the Affordable Care At during the firstopen enrollment period, But because DallasCounty has the most uninsured residents inTexas, the push to get more people to enroll in ahealthcare plan will continue this fall.

Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Monica R. Alonzo andthe Enroll Dallas Coalition are hosting Saturday’sevent, which is open to the public. The event willbe bilingual. Representatives will be onsite todiscuss healthcare basics, the upcoming fall en-rollment period and children’s Medicaid, CHIPand WIC programs.

This event is the first in a series of educationalevents presented by the Dallas County Afford-able Care Act Coalition., which is led by Alonzo,Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins and U.S. De-partment of Health and Human Services Re-gional Director Marjorie Petty.

— Tammye Nash


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•pet of the week / PeeWee

Stonewall Denton’s Blue PartyStonewall Democrats of Denton County cele-

brates its seventh birthday with its Blue Partyfrom 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at Castle HillsCommunity Center, 2501 Queen Margaret Drivein Lewisville. Those attending should wear blue.A minimum donation of $20 is requested. For in-formation email [email protected].

HRC Fruit Bowl

Human Rights Campaign DFW holds its an-nual Fruit Bowl, an afternoon of bowling that cel-ebrates all the great musicals, from 2-5 p.m.Sunday, Aug. 17, at AMF Richardson Lanes, 2101N. Central Expressway in Richardson. Those at-tending are encouraged to come dressed as char-acters from their favorite musicals; team costumesthat feature a theme — for example, the Von TrappFamily singers or Marilyn and her gentlemen orthe nuns of Sister Act — earn bonus points. For in-formation email [email protected].

Halstead to speak at PFLAG Fort Worth

Fort Worth Police Chief Jeffrey Halstead will beguest speaker at the next meeting of the FortWorth Chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Families andFriends of Lesbians and Gays).

PFLAG Fort Worth meets at 7 p.m. Thursday,

Sept. 4, at First Jefferson Unitarian UniversalistChurch, 1959 Sandy Lane in Fort Worth. For infor-mation, call 817-428-2329 or visit PFLAGFort-Worth.org

GALA sails Lake LewisvilleGay and Lesbian Alliance of North Texas an-

nounced their Lake Lewisville event on Aug. 16 issold out. The all-day sailing aboard the 105-pas-senger Chaminox II party boat will lunch on-board the boat, frozen margaritas, inflatables forplaying in the lake with music and karaoke led byLittle Chalupa. •

PeeWee is a 2-year-old, brown-and-white, Chihuahua-Italiangreyhound mix. He loves to snuggle and lay his chin on yourshoulder. He is calm but also alert and playful. He’s been at theshelter since July 16, so his adoption fee has been waived. He’s vaccinated and microchipped and will be neutered when you adopt him. Please visit him at Dallas Animal Services, 1818 Westmoreland Rd. Ask for PeeWee, A845945.

This Saturday, Aug. 16 is “Empty the Shelter” day and all adoption fees will be waived.The Adoption Center is open 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Monday-Saturday, and noon-5 p.m.Sunday. All adopted pets are spayed or neutered, vaccinated and microchipped.Standard adoption fees are $85 for dogs and $55 for cats. There are also discounts onadoption fees for pets over 6 years of age, for any senior citizen that adopts a petand for anyone adopting more than one pet at a time. For more information,visit DallasAnimalServices.org or find us on Facebookat Facebook.com/DallasAnimalServices. Photo contributed by Judi Burnett.

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Counselors talk about the warning

signs and treatments for depression

and provide a number of resources

DAVID TAFFET | Staff [email protected]

Robin Williams’ suicide this week has sparkedwidespread discussion about depression, sub-stance abuse and their warning signs and treat-ment in the LGBT community — and beyond.

Counselor Candy Marcum breaks depressiondown into two categories — situational and chem-ical.

Situational depression, Marcum said, can resultfrom losing a job, battling health issues, the breakup of a relationship. For that kind of depression,counseling can help.

But chemical depression is biological in nature,and often someone with chemical depressionneeds more than just someone to talk to, Marcumsaid.

Chemical depression can also have a genetic as-pect, she added, surmising that perhaps “it ran in[Williams’] family.”

Marcum said she refers some people to a psy-chiatrist for medication and others to programs atResource Center or Legacy Counseling Center.

Marcum said she looks for co-morbidity in di-agnosing depression and substance abuse, notingthat the two problems often go hand-in-hand.

Marcum said there’s no one best way to combatthe problem of substance abuse, but that there area number of options for those seeking help inNorth Texas.

“We have a wonderful LGBT sober communityin Dallas,” Marcum said, recommending LambdaAA and Al-Anon.

One of the warning signs of depression, Mar-cum said, is “when a person doesn’t take joy insome of the things that used to give him joy.”Other signs include frequent feelings of sadness orguilt, significant changes in eating or sleepinghabits, irritability, exhaustion or trouble concen-trating or remembering, changes in appearance ora growing tendency to pull away from or be inac-cessible to friends or family.

But the signs of imminent suicide can be muchharder to detect, Marcum said.

Often when someone actually makes the deci-sion to commit suicide, he or she will seem hap-

pier precisely because they’ve made a decision,Marcum said. She said she’s seen cases whensomeone began putting their affairs in order, andthose around are glad to see that person seem tobe getting better, when in fact that person is justpreparing for the end.

Marcum also said it’s a dangerous myth thatwhen someone talks about suicide, they’re not se-rious about actually doing it

“If someone mentions suicide, take it seriously,”she insisted. “Call the police.”

The Rev. Jim Mitulski, interim pastor at Cathe-dral of Hope, works with a number of people onissues of depression from a pastoral care stand-point.

“I’m always sure to say, ‘Are you seeing a ther-apist?’” he said. “And as someone who’s done it,I’m not embarrassed to ask people about their sub-stance abuse.”

Mitulski said that some religious people oftensee depression and seeing a therapist as a sign ofspiritual weakness. But he said he views someoneworking on their mental health a sign of spiritualhealth.

There’s no shame in being depressed, Mitulskisaid, and you don’t have to keep up appearances.

“There’s a reluctance among Christians to takeanti-depressants,” he said. “But science helps us.”

He said LGBT people are often reluctant to goto a therapist because of bad experiences they hadpreviously when they were forced to see a thera-pist to try and change their sexual orientation orresolve gender identity issues.

So it’s important to make sure you have theright therapist, he said, suggesting that individualsinterview potential therapists or ask someone theytrust to recommend a therapist.

Sometimes, Mitulski continued, friends andfamily are part of the problem. A pastor may havejust the right distance to ask the right questions.

And, he said, “It’s never too late to change.”Fort Worth counselor Beth Lewis distinguishes

between suicide and depression. “A history of depression doesn’t always lead to

suicide and a suicide can occur without a long his-tory of depression,” she said.

She said with Robin Williams in the spotlight,the trend has been to call suicide selfish.

Some seem to think that “a person who endstheir life simply wants out,” she said. “Call it whatyou want, but that doesn’t help. It’s not selfish. It’sdesperate.”

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TRIBUTE | Mariagrazia LaFauci, 24, of Waltham, Mass. places a teddy bear on a bench at Boston’s Public Garden, Tuesday, Aug. 12, where a small memorial has sprung up at the place where Robin Williams filmed a

scene during the movie ‘Good Will Hunting.’ Williams, who committed suicide Monday, Aug. 11, at the age of 63, had spoken openly about his struggles with depression. (Elise Amendola/Associated Press)


Lewis said depressed people who want to endtheir lives often do so quickly.

“We expect the people we love to grab us andsay, ‘Please help me.’ That doesn’t happen,” shesaid, urging anyone who sees someone they careabout suffering the signs of depression to tellthem, “I’m here for you and together we’re goingto get some help.”

Lewis said to take a direct, affectionate andcaring approach.

Before resorting to medication, Lewis suggeststhat those battling depression take a holistic ap-proach — exercise, a healthy diet, adequate hy-dration and plenty of sleep. She also suggestedthey eliminate white sugar and processed foodsfrom their diet.

Lewis said when someone is healthier, theycan manage the things they’re qualified to man-age. As an example, she said, no one can managea death, but a person can learn to manage a loss.

Doug Hall, a licensed psychotherapist whopractices in Uptown and Arlington, called sui-cide a long-term solution to a temporary prob-lem.

“No one should suffer for a long period,” hesaid. “We have great medications and good treat-ments.”

He said psychological and spiritual healing gohand-in-hand and that depression should betreated as any other medical condition — withno stigma attached.

“If the worst thing I have to do is take a pill ortwo a day, I know a lot of people who’d be happyto trade places with me,” Hall said.

Many times, a person dealing with depressionthinks they’re up against a brick wall without ananswer. Hall said when you see a friend or rela-tive in pain, try to convince them to seek treat-ment. There’s always a solution, he said.

But the person dealing with depression can’tovercome it alone. Hall suggested that if someoneis so debilitated they can’t make an appointment,a concerned relative or friend should make theappointment for them. Get them out of bed, getthem dressed and get them to the appointment.If you think someone is in immediate danger ofharming themselves or someone else, call 911.

Whether a first contact is with a pastor that canask the right questions and make an appropriatereferral, with a counselor that can help sort outproblems and make a referral if necessary, orwith a psychiatrist that can prescribe medication,— if you’re struggling with depression, find helpsomewhere. •

National Resources

• The Trevor Project: 866-488-7386

• National Suicide Prevention Hotline:

1-800-273-TALK (8255)• NSPH’s Deaf Hotline: 1-800-799-4889• GLBT National Help Center:

1-888-THE-GLNH (4564)

Local Community Resources• Alcoholics Anonymous Lambda Group:

214-267-0222 or 214-887-6699• G.E.A.R. (Gender Education, Advocacy

and Resources): 214-528-0144• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance of

Fort Worth and Tarrant County: 817-654-7100or [email protected].

• Legacy Counseling, private and group sessions that include alcohol and substanceabuse programs for people with HIV: 214-520-6308

• Resource Center (in conjunction with SMU’sMaster of Science Counseling Education Program): 214-393-3680

• AIDS Outreach Center/The Journey (support group for people living with HIV):Brenda Wingo, 817-916-5217.

• AIDS Outreach Center/Mujeres Unidas(for HIV-positive women, in Spanish): Ana Colin-Hernandez, 817-916-5214.

• AIDS Outreach Center/Futuro Unidos(for HIV-positive men, in Spanish):Bea Lampka at 817-916-5225

• AIDS Outreach Center/Man Talk (for HIV-positive gay and bisexual men): Curtis Smith, 817-916-5219.

• Mental Health America Of Greater Tarrant

County | Warm Line (non-crisis referral number, limited hours, 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday): 817-546-7826.

• MHMR of Tarrant County 24-hour CrisisHotline: 1-800-866-2465 or 817-335-3022.

Local LGBT-Affirming Counselors• Stonewall Behavioral Health: 214-521-1278,

[email protected].• Hall Counseling and Associates:

214-662-3523, [email protected].• Beth Clardy Lewis, M.A., L.P.C.:

817-781-3735, [email protected].• Cynthia Lovell, M.Ed., L.P.C.: 214-497-6268.• Randy Martin, L.P.C.-S.: 214-392-8247,

[email protected].• Tammy Tips, M.A., L.P.C.: 817-300-8809.

Local Religious Resources• Agape MCC (Fort Worth): 817-535-5002.• Beth El Binah (Dallas): 214-500-8304.• Cathedral of Hope (Dallas): 214-351-1901.• Cathedral of Hope-Mid Cities (Hurst):

817-354-HOPE• Celebration Community Church (Fort Worth):

817-335-3222• Celebration on the Lake (Gun Barrel City):

903-451-2302.• Crossroads Community Church (Dallas):

214-520-9090.• Harvest MCC (Denton): 940-484-6159.• Northaven UMC (Dallas): 214-363-2479.• MCC Dallas: 972-243-0761.• Oak Lawn UMC (Dallas): 214-521-5197.• St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church

(Dallas): 214-352-0410.• Trinity MCC (Arlington): 817-265-5454.

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Minister who repeatedly

provoked her church by

performing same-sex weddings

to speak at Cathedral of Hope


The Rev. Jane Spahr isn’t quite sure what she’lltalk about when she speaks at Cathedral of Hopeon Sunday, Aug. 17. But it’s guaranteed she’ll getin a few good laughs. When Spahr talks about re-peatedly provoking the Presbyterian Church byperforming numerous same-sex marriages andbecoming the first lesbian evangelist, she does itwith a wonderful sense of humor.

Unlike other ministers who’ve faced church tri-als with anguish, Spahr wears her experiences asa badge of honor, doing her part in the fight forequality.

The Presbyterian minister, who came out as les-bian in her 30s, faced church trials three times formarrying same-sex couples. In 1992, she becamethe first out lesbian to be called to lead a Presbyte-rian congregation. Because of her sexual orienta-tion, church courts denied Spahr the position inRochester, N.Y., so she went on to minister gaysand lesbians.

“I was the first lesbian evangelist,” she laughsand says proudly.

In 2004, Spahr performed a holy union. “I calledit a marriage,” she said, explaining that she meetswith couples for a year before marrying them.That’s because she always wants to make sure theceremony is genuine and personal. And if she callsit a marriage, damn it, that’s what it is.

After California legalized same-sex marriage in2008, Spahr performed quite a few ceremonies be-fore Proposition 8 shut down marriage equality in

the state.“I always reported it,” she said, because she be-

lieves in being open and honest with the churchshe loves.

For her most recent trial, she said, the church of-ficials chose to charge her for performing mar-riages for 16 of the couples she had wed. Theordeal lasted from 2008 until 2010. She’s not surewhy those couples were chosen, but she was de-lighted with the choices.

“The couples were able to testify,” she said. “Itwas important for the court to hear.”

In facing those charges, Spahr refused to com-promise her principles. She said when she marrieda couple that had been together 45 years, shedidn’t know what else to call it but a marriage.

Many of the couples she married were alreadyraising children. Of course that was a marriage,she said.

In February 2012, the court ruled that Presbyte-rian ministers cannot perform same-sex mar-riages, even in states where such marriages arelegal, because the denomination’s constitutiondoes not recognize such unions as Christian mar-riages. At the time of the ruling against her, a fed-eral court had just struck down Prop 8, sendingthat decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“This is not about me,” Spahr said, dismissingthe charges as nothing personal. “It’s about achurch that says no.”

Spahr said after she was convicted, her localpresbytery refused to rebuke her. That was an in-dication things were changing as rapidly in thePresbyterian Church as they were changingthroughout the country.

Currently, the Presbyterian Church USA is inthe process of changing its definition and rules onmarriage. In June, the denomination’s General As-sembly passed two rules that must be approvedby a majority of presbyteries over the next year.

The first gives ministers the right to performsame-sex weddings in states where it is legal, butwith no requirement to do so.

The second changes the wording that saysChristian marriage is between “a man and awoman” to a marriage is between “two people,traditionally a man and a woman.”

Spahr was ordained in 1974, two years beforeshe came out. She was married and had children.Since her divorce, she remains good friends withher former husband. She even performed his sec-ond wedding and counts her ex-husband’s wifeas one of her closest friends.

Although she is officially retired and delights inspending lots of time with her grandchildren,Spahr continues performing same-sex weddingsin the growing number of states that allow themand doesn’t expect to be called up before a churchcourt again — even though the denomination’spolicy hasn’t officially changed.

Spahr will speak at the 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. serv-ices at Cathedral of Hope on Sunday, and she’lllikely do it with a great sense of humor. Becausethat’s the only way she knows how to look at herlife. •

The first lesbian evangelist

The Rev. Jane Spahr


Telling storiesfrom the epidemicPOZ magazine founder Sean Strub

in North Texas this weekend


Sean Strub has been telling the stories of peoplewith HIV and AIDS since early in the epidemic.

“If we’re not telling those stories — those of uswho were there — they’ll be told by others withagendas,” he said.

Strub was diagnosed with HIV in 1985 whenthe first test for antibodies to the virus was re-leased. But he’d been suffering weight loss, per-sistently swollen lymph glands and night sweatssince the beginning of the epidemic.

He began publishing POZ magazine in 1994and sold his interest in 2004 when the magazineneeded a cash infusion.

“In the mainstream media, AIDS was describedas fatal with no survivors,” he said. “Any possi-bility for survival had been taken away from us.”

He said he started POZ to bring a positive mes-sage of hope, highlight research and treatment andtell stories of survivors like himself.

In his new book Body Counts: A Memoir of Sex,AIDS and Survival, Strub talks about his own battlewith the disease and his involvement with ACT-UP and a number of celebrities involved in thefight along the way.

In describing his encounter with TennesseeWilliams, Strub said he confused the playwrightwith singer Tennessee Ernie Ford. Despite themythical image the playwright had, Strub de-scribes the evening as quite normal: Williams in-vited him over to his Key West home and saidthey’d figure out what they’d do that eveningonce he got there.

In New York and Washington, ACT-UP had areputation for being extremely militant. WhileDallas had an active chapter that forced changesin the county and at Parkland Hospital, membersof the group always said they did ACT-UP “theDallas way.”

Strub’s account indicates maybe Dallas didn’tdo it so differently. In 1987, Strub said he was ar-rested for civil disobedience for the first time. At ademonstration outside the Reagan White House,police donned long yellow gloves.

ACT-UP responded with a typical gay sense ofhumor, chanting, “Your gloves don’t match yourshoes. You’ll see it on the news.”

Strub said he probably couldn’t have writtenthis account much sooner than he did. He com-pared survivors of the AIDS epidemic to Holo-caust survivors.

As survivors of the Holocaust began rebuildingtheir lives, they rarely talked about their experi-ences for the first decade or two after their releasefrom concentration camps. Once they did begintelling their stories and building museums tohouse artifacts, they looked at it with a sense of

history.“Enough time has passed” to write this book,

Strub said.He said it’s important to honor those who were

lost to AIDS. At the time, survivors didn’t havetime to grieve as they went from one friend’s fu-neral to another friend’s bedside.

But Strub said he tells stories from the AIDS cri-sis without assigning blame.

“We just have an obligation to share,” he said.“History is important.”

He noted the generational divide. Tellingyounger people, “I lost all of my friends” is noteffective in HIV prevention work.

“They don’t want to hear grandpa’s war sto-ries,” he said.

Strub said six or seven years ago, he started get-ting re-engaged with the fight against AIDS witha focus on empowerment and stigma.

“The stigma is worse than ever,” he said.In the early days of the AIDS crisis, the lesbian

community rallied around the gay men who weredying of the disease. Today, Strub said, there’smarginalization and prejudgment within theLGBT community that is even being enshrined inlaws criminalizing passing HIV to another per-son.

Strub will be in North Texas this weekend totalk about his new book, and promises to keep itlight, talking more about his encounters withcelebrities than his work empowering people liv-ing with HIV by reducing stigma.

Strub speaks at 7 p.m. on Aug. 21 at ArlingtonMuseum of Art Rooftop Gallery, 201 West MainSt., Arlington in a benefit for AIDS Outreach Cen-ter. A $75 donation is requested. •

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Area advocacy groups help charter

school network develop procedures

JAMES RUSSELL | Staff [email protected]

An area charter school operator began the newschool year with a tough new anti-bullying policythat impacts 14 campuses and 100,000 students,thanks to the work of two area LGBT advocacygroups.

The Resource Center’s Rafael McDonnell andFairness Fort Worth’s David Mack Hendersonworked with Uplift Education to add specific lan-guage protecting students from bullying and ha-rassment based on “sexual orientation, genderidentity and expression,” and other forms of bul-lying and harassment.

Currently under Texas law sexual orientationand gender identity are not protected categories.The last time the Legislature passed anti-bullyinglegislation was in the 83rd legislative session in2011. It added language to the state’s laws to in-clude cyber bullying and other forms of harass-ment.

But Henderson said, “The law does not evenhave enumerated categories, unlike both the Dal-las and Fort Worth Independent School Districts.”

It also does not apply to charter schools.The two-year collaboration began when then-

FFW President Thomas Anable and McDonnell,both Fort Worth residents, approached the re-gional network about strengthening their policy.At that point, Uplift was expanding throughoutthe area and entering Tarrant County.

McDonnell said the network was receptivefrom the very beginning: “They were looking toexpand their policy.”

The duo had already collaborated, looking foropportunities to add protections for LGBT peopleregionally, said McDonnell. When Anable died,Henderson stepped in.

Henderson was experienced in this area, in partbecause he worked with major area school dis-tricts to add language and protections in their anti-bullying and -discrimination policies. He said heknew how to speak the language.

“When you speak to boards or trustees, youhave to speak the language of the people there. [Inthis case], you have to make a business argu-ment,” Henderson said. “It makes sense to includeand protect LGBT people in your policies for fac-ulty, students and staff because it makes you morecompetitive” and casts a net to a wider audience.

As soon as he joined McDonnell, Hendersonexperienced a similar welcoming reception fromUplift.

And when they got the first draft last summer,both men were impressed. “When we got thedraft, it was one of the best drafts we had seen,”said Henderson.

McDonnell agreed. “It needed very little work.”Uplift’s board approved the policy in April after

collaborating with administrators, academics andothers. It is now in its student code of conducthandbook.

Ultimately, both had nothing but praise for thesuccessful policy, despite the two-year wait.

It’s also a sobering victory for the two: Bothnoted it was the last unfinished project Anable andMcDonnell had been working on. •

Uplift Education institutes new anti-bullying policy

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Gay Games officials believe the

incident involving a Cleveland

police officer was isolated


Members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgencein Cleveland for the Gay Games this week say thata Cleveland police officer stopped them fromhanding out safe sex kits outside Q Arena andthen forced them to leave the arena area, eventhough they had pre-purchased tickets to attend.

They also said that other Sisters who were orig-inally supposed to participate in Opening Cere-monies were cut from the event.

Gay Games officials said they hadn’t heardabout any incidents happening outside the arenain Cleveland. And they said that even though theSisters of Perpetual Indulgence were not includedin opening ceremonies, the drag community was.

While President Barack Obama was welcomingparticipants and fans to the U.S. via video insidethe arena, a Cleveland police officer was turningaway the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence outside.

Dallas Sister Lawna Jocqui said she and SisterRachel from Cleveland were outside the arena dis-tributing safe sex kits when a Cleveland police of-ficer, identified as Lt. Chuck Depenti, told them togo across the street. Once they were across thestreet, they continued handing out their packets,but they said athletes and spectators asked whythey weren’t part of the opening ceremony.

Gay Games spokeswoman Ann Gynn said theSisters were never part of the opening ceremony,although the ceremony included a diverse arrayof people from the community and around theworld.

“Opening ceremony involved numerous dragqueens — both on the stage as well as participantsin the Parade of Participants,” she said.

Jocqui questioned what she called a reluctanceto use the word gay when referring to the games,wondering if that masked a homophobic under-current in the city.

“The two words ‘Gay Games’ is the primaryphrasing used in our logo as well as most sig-nage,” Gynn said. “Our logo is prominent on sig-

nage throughout the region, from the airport todowntown, hotels and more. We also showed itthroughout Opening Ceremony and the QuickenLoans Arena created its own welcome sign. Wesometimes use ‘Games’ or ‘GG9’ as an abbrevia-tion.”

Former Dallas resident Shawn Huff, who nowlives in Cleveland, said he understood the Sisterswere escorted off the property because they weredistributing condoms.

“The city has bent over backwards to be hos-pitable,” he said. “This was a huge event for thecity. There are rainbow flags everywhere and bill-boards. I haven’t heard of one incident in the city.”

Jocqui said the officer that told them to goacross the street told them that Human RightsCampaign had an exclusive contract to hand outliterature.

“I went to the convention center today andchatted with some of the HRC volunteers,” Jocquisaid. “They’re still surprised and said they’re notaware of any exclusive rights to pass out materialor be the lone organization on the front of the QArena.”

Sister Nadia of the Cleveland chapter of the Sis-ters said that as a newer chapter of the organiza-tion than Dallas, people in Cleveland may viewtheir group as more of an oddity. In Dallas, peoplein Oak Lawn know if the Sisters are around,they’re raising money and raising HIV awareness.

“My encounter with the officer was terse andintimidating,” Sister Nadia said.

He said other officers apologized and brushedoff the incident saying, “Oh, that’s just Chuck.”

Sister Nadia said he filed a complaint with thecity’s professional standards and civilian reviewboard.

The police department did not respond to a re-quest for comments.

“About 12,000 participants and spectators rep-resenting a diverse cross section of the NortheastOhio community as well as out-of-town guests,friends and families enjoyed Opening Ceremony,which included a surprise video from PresidentBarack Obama to welcome everybody to the 2014Gay Games,” Gynn said.

Obama is the first host-country’s leader in thehistory of the Gay Games to officially open theevent. •

DIVERSITY | Gay games opening ceremonies featured diverse participants from around the LGBT community

and around the world. (Photo courtesy of Kevin Yung/Gay Games 9)

Sisters refused entry to Gay Games

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Memorial 15 years in the

making with many more to go

JAMES RUSSELL | Staff [email protected]

Supporters of a plan to build a LGBT veter-ans’ memorial unveiled their design last monthin the Historic Congressional Cemetery inWashington, D.C. Now they just need to raisethe funds to build it.

The proposal is the latest milestone for theNational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgen-der Veterans Memorial.

Board chair and retired Army LieutenantColonel Nancy Russell of San Antonio is spear-heading the effort with a volunteer board of vet-erans spread across the country. One of theboard’s first priorities after gaining non-profitstatus was getting a design.

The group put out a call for proposals, but thesix it received fell short of their standards. Noneof them “inspired, much less gave the dignityand solemnity necessary for a memorial,” shesaid. “We wanted something that would makeus proud.”

Fellow board member and Marine veteranMarty Gunter submitted a design and won theboard’s approval.

Three black granite pillars standing 11 feethigh marked with the emblems of the six mili-tary divisions will tower above niches holdingthe ashes of veterans and their partners. Sur-rounding it will be plots for those wishing to beinterred there.

While there are two national memorials al-ready honoring LGBT veterans, one in Phoenixand the other in Cathedral City, Calif., havingone in the nation’s capital would make state-ment, she said.

As subtle as the memorial may be, Guntersaid the project makes a political statement. “It’sa historical act, recognizing a period of historywhere servicemen served but could not be out.”

With the design available, they can now focuson awareness of and fundraising for the memo-rial. Russell estimates initial costs at $300,000.

It’s been 15 years in the making.The group did not formally incorporate until

September 2011, shortly after the repeal of Don’tAsk, Don’t Tell, the law that barred gay, lesbianand bisexual service members from being outwhile on active duty. Even then, being a veteranwas a risk, further hindering the group’s abilityto formally raise money and function as a not-for-profit entity. Timing was everything.

The idea for a memorial had long been on hermind, but the public support for the LGBT com-munity just wasn’t there. It was the 1990s, anuneasy time for the LGBT community, and evenshe had just become an activist. Russell was afounding board member of the pro-LGBTgroup American Veterans for Equal Rights and testified againstDon’t Ask, Don’t Tell before the House Armed Services Commit-tee. She worked with multiple national Democratic groups aswell.

Despite the national profile though, Russell still fought some ofthe demons that came with being in the closet.

The military is your life, Russell said. “After I retired, I intro-

duced myself at one point as a recovering Army officer,” she said.“It was hard to be fully integrated [into the military] when youhave to hide part of yourself. I was used to denying this part ofmyself.”

That national profile, however, gave her a wide range of con-tacts. One of those was Congressional Cemetery board memberPatrick Crowley, who approached Russell in 1999 about possibly

using the cemetery as the site for LGBT veter-ans’ memorial. At that point, the cemetery wasrun by an all-volunteer group and couldn’t getthe resources together.

But the idea was still on Russell’s mind.The historic Congressional Cemetery, despite

the name, is not owned or even operated by thefederal government. The de facto cemetery, ac-cording to its website, is owned by ChristChurch and managed by The Association forthe Preservation of the Historic CongressionalCemetery. But since its founding in 1807, it’sbeen the burial grounds for congressmen, sena-tors, celebrities and veterans.

The cemetery already has a 9/11 memorialmaintained by a local group in a deal identicalto the NLGBTVM.

Paul Williams, the openly gay president ofthe association, said there are many out veteransand public servants buried there. “We have a‘gay section’ actually,” he said laughing, makingit a perfect location for the LGBT veterans me-morial. Its affiliation with the church allows itto “carry on the Christian tradition of beingkind to one’s neighbors,” he said.

Among those in the gay section are promi-nent LGBT veterans, including Leonard Mat-lovich, an air force pilot and Purple Heartrecipient. After he came out in an issue of Timemagazine in 1975 he was dishonorably dis-charged. He chose Congressional over Arling-ton Memorial Cemetery in part because of hischoice words on his tombstone: “They gave mea medal for killing two men and a discharge forloving one.”

Another prominent official in the gay section,Williams added, was the allegedly closeted for-mer F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover.

Change comes with time. Eventually therewill be gay, lesbian and bisexual veterans whonever knew DADT. But that shouldn’t diminishthe memorial’s importance, said Rob Smith, ayoung gay activist, journalist and Iraq War vet-eran who served under the DADT policy.

“Whether or not DADT is over, history willforget you. The contributions of LGBT people,African-Americans and others wouldn’t be rec-ognized” were it not for the efforts of activists,he said

“I’m not going to be the last gay black sol-dier,” he said, just as Russell will not be the lastout lesbian soldier.

He also stressed the memorial will raiseawareness about the diversity within the LGBTcommunity. “It shows that there are LGBT peo-ple outside of the entertainment business.”

Russell said she’s not worried. “I had oneyounger man, an active duty member in Iraq,asking to be involved,” she said.

Russell and Smith acknowledged that trans-gender service members are still unable to serveopenly. She said she’s reached out to transgen-der community, but recognizes many activists

already have their plates full. She wonders though if the stigmaof being trans in the military has pushed potential board membersaway. She’s still trying, she said.

Barriers clearly haven’t stopped her. “We are now integrated into society but that doesn’t we should-

n’t forget our history,” she said. •For information on donating, email or visit www.nlgbtvm.org.


Plans for national LGBT veterans’ memorial unveiled

HONORING THOSE WHO SERVED | A rendering of the proposed National LGBT Vets' Memorial in His-

torical Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: National LGBT Veterans Memorial)

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DeathKelly Ryan Murphy, 42, was found

dead at his residence on Aug. 13 by hispartner, Jim Walker.

A graduate of University of Wyomingin Laramie, Wyo., Murphy was creativedirector at Mary Kay Cosmetics.

He was born in Sheridan, Wyo. andhas mostly lived in Dallas for most ofthe past 20 years. During that time, hewas art director at Dallas Voice forabout five years. He was a member ofSpectrum Motorcycle Club and UCCCathedral of Hope. Kelly was active foryears in the Dallas leather community.He enjoyed gardening, travel and read-ing, and loved riding his motorcycle.Aside from Walker, the love of his lifewas a little silver tabby cat namedTango.

Murphy loved the beach and oncelived in Miami.

He is survived by Jim Walker, hispartner of 10 years; his parents, Roxyand Steve Novotny of Fort Collins,Colo., and Blaine and Cassie Murphy ofSheridan, Wyo.; sister and brother-in-law, Stacy and Brad Bledsoe, sister,Rachel Novotny, brother Sean Murphyand nephew Jaxon Ryan Novotny.

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, left, and three rape victims spoke at Dallas CityHall Plaza on Tuesday, Aug. 12, as Davis’ first televised ads in the governor’s race began airingaround the state. The ad focuses on then-Texas Supreme Court Justice Greg Abbott’s opinion that acompany employing a door-to-door salesman convicted of raping a woman in her home was not li-able for not having done a background check on the man. Abbott, a Republican, is the state’s currentattorney general and is running against Davis for governor. In the Texas Senate, Davis sponsored leg-islation that became law requiring all hospitals with emergency rooms to provide rape kits. Additionallegislation required those rape kits to be tested and victims are notified the testing procedure is ongo-ing. Rape victim Courtney Underwood, second from left, is co-founder of the Dallas Area Rape CrisisCenter. She also helped establish the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner — or SANE — program at Pres-byterian Hospital. Underwood said Tuesday that one in four women and one in 10 men are victims ofsexual assault. Those numbers are two to three times higher among the LGBT community and threeto four times higher among homeless LGBT youth. — David Taffet

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Remember guys:

It’s not about the pool!

The gay pool partyis like a red carpet,blind date and job in-terview all rolled intoone treacherous ven-ture but disguised as acasual social gather-ing. It’s also one of theconsistently majorevents in the entiregay social calendar.There are many po-tential pitfalls, and itrequires great plan-

ning and preparation for flawless execution. Youcannot simply receive an invitation with a date,time and address with the title “Pool Party” andshow up with hope in your heart. Emily Post iswoefully neglectful in her coverage of the intricaciesof this vital gay function, so let’s explore it.

First, the vast majority of gay pool parties are notactually pool parties. The host will call it a poolparty. The invitation will say “pool party.” The otherinvitees who mention it with a feigned casual air inpassing to find out if you were actually invited willcall it a pool party. Do not be fooled!!!

The pool is the location and a lovely set piecewhich serves as the background for the vital “I wasthere” Instagram photos, but you are not — and thiscannot be emphasized enough — you are not in-tended to use the pool. A brave (or foolish) few willjump in; do not be one of them. Using the pool willlead to whispered mockery, side-eye scorn and, asthe alcohol flows unaccompanied by anything fromthe lovely but untouched spread of food, outrightridicule.

The super-gay pool party invitation will alwayssay it is celebrating something, someone or someorganization, but that is not its true purpose. No,the purpose of the pool party is to stand and model,to see and be seen, and it should be treated with theutmost respect. Like The Hunger Games. This com-parison is particularly apt because in order to suc-cessfully navigate the summer pool party, youshould have stopped eating in February. If you arevisiting California or Miami, where pool party sea-son begins in March, say goodbye to enjoying mealsat the holidays and dive headfirst into the refusing-to-die kale craze.

Having clearly established that the gay poolparty is a look-see function comparable to the cou-ture runway shows of Milan, it should be clear thatphysical appearance and attire are 90 percent of sur-viving the outing unscathed. If you did not spendall of the winter months rigorously continuing astrict workout and dietary regimen in preparationfor the first pool party of the season reveal, well …good luck.

If you did manage to retain your self-disciplinethrough the dreary winter months when going tothe gym feels like a Sisyphean task, congratulations.(I hate you a little bit, but well done, sir! For therecord, those endorphin things you are supposedto get after a workout that make it feel so rewardingonce you get through it — mine are broken.)

Attire is the second half of the all-important, ap-pearance-is-everything aspect of the gay pool party.It’s not enough that you suffered to sustain that six-pack and perfect triangle shape, you can still beouted as a fraud if you don’t dress correctly. Thoseboard shorts? Sir, remember, you are not getting inthe pool. Secondly, you are not surfing, or at somemixed company gathering, or with children or at awaterpark. Board shorts have no place here.

The overall attire for this gathering is garden-party casual, never actually a swimsuit. Linen andseersucker freely abound. Medium fitted V-necksthat seem to have a 50-50 chance of losing the battlewith your bulging biceps also work. Hamptonssummer-chic works well at a gay pool party in anypart of the country for a preppier, stylish choice.Tasteful tank tops are the lowest end allowed. Yes,tasteful tank tops are totally a thing now, whenpaired with fashionable shorts or pants and shoes.A tank tops/flip- flops combo should be reservedfor the beach. For a stylish form of flip-flops to beapropos, they cannot be the freshman-dorm-worn-to-the shower sort; they must be fashionable, and adressier shirt/pants pairing is a must.

Sunglasses are the finishing touch to the gay poolparty ensemble. They allow you to safely scan thecrowd, but ensure they are completely opaque. It’simportant not to move your head when peoplewatching, or judging, or ignoring that boring guyyou got stuck talking to in order to bulge watch, orthe gig will be up. Do not wear your gas stationsunglasses because you are one of those “I break orlose or sit on my sunglasses all the time” people. Ifeel your pain. But do not wear them.

There is the tiniest caveat to the attire mandates.Designer swimwear (PacSun, H&M and Target arenot designers, boys!) that is fitted or imitates theshort-shorts trend can be done … carefully. Theadorable bulge-enhancing Speedo or fitted squarecut you are wearing underneath your ensemble istruly just a safety net in the tragic event someonethrows you in the pool. Then, and only then, canyou reveal it.

Additionally, you do not start getting a tan at apool party. Your tan plan should be factored in wellin advance of your first gay pool party of the sea-son. Whether it is a bought base tan, laying out inadvance, or a spray (dear god, don’t get a spray tanthe day of!), you should already be the skin coloryou prefer. Before you get there. And wear sun-screen so you don’t get an awful tank top/V-neck/fitted polo tan line, or you’ll have to fix thatbefore the next party!

If you’ve managed to do all of these things, con-gratulations, you are ready for the gay pool party!

It should be noted that if you are someone’s plus-one —or plus-seven because you are part of a hotposse — it’s all the more important you do not failat any of these tasks. The gay pool party is an op-portunity to mix up your dating pool, network orjust stand from a well-placed vantage point andjudge everyone else for an afternoon. It can be awonderful time, if you approach it with the respect

it deserves. Just don’t eat anything. Before, duringor after.

Or, you could just create a gathering of peopleyou already know and like, wear whatever you likeand eat whatever you want in and around a poolwhere the point is fun and relaxation using a poolas it is intended to be used and have an actual party.

But where’s the fun in that? •

A survival guide for the gay pool party

Reveal this suit only if you plan to be thrown in the pool. (Arnold Wayne Jones/Dallas Voice)

Meditation can help in the

struggle against depression

Like so many others this week, I find myselfmourning the loss of Robin Williams. Itcrept up on me Tuesday afternoon while I

wasn’t looking: “Ha ha ha! Here is your nausea.”Ugh.

It is rare that the death of an actor affects myfeelings so much. But Williams’ lifelong ability toconnect to us emotionally was so touching, so realand so deeply human. And it was so commonlyhuman that he found himself suffering from de-pression near the end.

It’s not my place to ever say whether or notsomeone should ever take their own life, as some-times the pain of living can be hard to bear. But Ido know from personal and professional experi-ence that depression is a very treatable disorderand there are life-embracing options possible.

It doesn’t seem like it, because depression is sodarn tricky to deal with. It really is a menacingTrickster and it tries to fool us into a dark andgloomy lullaby. We have to wake ourselves upfrom its dreary dream.

As for me, I fell into a deep depression about 10years ago after a divorce. I was mad at myself. Iwas critical of my life, and I had not come to termswith myself. I blamed myself for everything. I hada hard time seeing a hopeful future.

I felt sad and lonely, even though I had peoplein my life. Going to bed at night was the worst,and I lay there with only my own analytical mindfor company — Le Trickster.

Ah, that darn siren of depression. It tells us todo the opposite of what will cure us — yet anotherirony in life.

What opened the door to my salvation was re-

membering. I re-membered that Ihad not always beendepressed, that therewas a time of clarityand love and light. Ijust needed to findmy way home. I hadto believe.

And then I gotangry. I got down-right mad at myTrickster. I swore atit, and I swore at it, and I swore at it some more.Look where it had taken me!

I made my declaration: I will not listen to youTiny Trickster. I will do the things I need to do. Iwill, as they say, fake it until I make it.

This I committed to, acting as if I was not de-pressed, while taking a hot bath. I began with alions roar in my stomach, powerful and low.Louder I got. The Trickster was mad, but tinier hegot.

“No, you must wear this sleep mask of gloomand doom,” he said. No, I refused. I wanted tosnap out of it.

This was not easy. It took months of believingand having faith that I could clear my mind andchase the Trickster from my mind. I had to pullmyself up by my bootstraps. But how?

I learned meditation. This simple lesson, onethat most people will not want to learn, becamemy salvation. Our minds tell us meditation is bor-ing or impossible or “no way.”

Well, for me, it was not boring or impossible.For me it was the way.

Our emotions follow from our thoughts. Ourthoughts stem from our beliefs. We have to changeour beliefs, our minds, our thoughts to change

how we feel.Zen masters know this intrinsically. They have

been trying to teach us to meditate for centuriesand centuries. But who wants to listen to a Zenmaster? I’m not climbing a mountain!

Well, if we don’t care to suffer, we do have tolearn this lesson: We have to submit to a humilitythat our own tricky mind will not allow. Our mindis so darn busy solving our depression problem,having no time to meditate, while ironically notnoticing it is the problem causing the depressionin the first place. We just have to take a step intofaith and learn to meditate.

No, meditation is not the answer for everyone,and there are other organic causes of depressionfor which medical treatment is sometimes neces-sary. I don’t discount that at all.

But meditation is part of a holistic healthylifestyle that might also include diet, exercise, find-ing passion in life, sleeping well, spending time innature, finding a spiritual path or path of higherconsciousness, serving humanity, setting healthyboundaries to toxic people, nurturing plants andanimals, and seeking professional help.

Meditation is a way to fine-tune our attentionto ourselves and our world; it is self care, an act oflove. It is a way for us to gain control of our mindinstead of letting it control us.

Whoa!At the same time, we can decide to be okay with

our mind as it is right now while still learning toheal it. We open ourselves up to peace this very in-stant. After all, we don’t want to invite the Tricksterback in and let it lull us back to sleep by engagingin self-criticism.

There is much more to depression, of course.But there is hope. Remember that: There is hope.

Depression is treatable. If you are strugglingwith depression, find help. Get treatment. Findhope. •

Renee Baker is a licensed professional counselor in-tern and can be reached at Renee-Baker.com.

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Uriegregarious

The Collin County theater alum did college plays, but his first progig in his home town will be next month at the City Performance

Hall in his off-Broadway comedy hit ‘Buyer & Cellar.’

Photography by Arnold Wayne Jones


If you ask most knowledgeable Americansto name the country’s preeminent schoolfor drama, most will probably reply “Juil-

liard.” But those in the know — especially inNorth Texas — might add, “Collin CountyCommunity College.” That’s where recentTony Award nominee Brian J. Smith (TheGlass Menagerie) attended before he went toJuilliard … and it’s where he met MichaelUrie.“That guy’s a movie star,” Urie says of

Smith, over a bottle of Ozarka at Dallas’ CityPerformance Hall, the venue he’ll be appear-ing in next month when his one-man show,Buyer & Cellar, makes its regional debut. “Iencouraged him to apply to Juilliard.” Bothmen count among their classmates JessicaChastain. Not too shabby company. But Urie is no slouch himself. He first shot

to fame on the hit TV show Ugly Betty, play-ing the conniving, bitchy assistant to theWintour-esque Wilhelmina Slater (played byVanessa Williams), but has parlayed that giginto a thriving and diverse career. He’sstarred in (and occasionally produced) ahandful of indie films, including Petunia(written and directed by another NorthTexan, Ash Christian); returned to televisionon the short-lived gay comedy Partners; andperhaps most notably, appeared off-Broad-way in Buyer & Cellar, the show he’s nowbringing back to his home town. But it’s re-ally a debut of its own kind for the quick-witted Dallas native.“As soon as I knew we were going on tour,

I began begging [the producers] to book thiscity,” he says, eyes twinkling. “I really hadspecial feelings about that. After I graduatedfrom high school I went to Quad C for a year,and I did children’s theater, but not any pro-fessional or even community-theater per-formances. I know a lot of people [in theDallas theater community], but never havebeen onstage in Dallas or done musicals atCasa Manana or any of those things.”He’s picked a fine piece to remedy that

blind spot in his resume. Urie first createdhis role in Buyer & Cellar— in which heplayed Alex Moore, an out-of-work actor inLos Angeles who, to pay the bills, takes a jobworking in the basement of BarbraStreisand’s Malibu home, curating her famedcollection of memorabilia — in the off-Broad-way Barrow Street Theater in June of 2013.

He got accustomed to the role, performing it,he recalls, “368 times. I kept a tally on thewall, like in prison.”Despite all those performances, several

still stand out. “One time, someone passedout and I had to stop the show,” he says. “Ithought, does that actually happen in the the-ater? One time I was holding a coffee tablebook and was spinning it, and hit myself myface. And then there was the time when allthe critics came one the same night!” Thegood news was, they all got it — his reviewswere excellent. “That’s the perfect audience,”he laughs: “Critics.”The show was such a hit that even when

Urie left, it continued to run, closing just lastmonth. But in the meantime, when Urie gotthe chance to take it on tour, he leapt at it.Coming back to a show was a big decision,

even as much as he loved doing it. Commit-ting to a lengthy tour in a part he carries sin-gle-handedly is an all-consuming process, headmits. “I needed to take time off from it before

the tour,” he says. “The year I did it, I didn’teat anything with a sauce, because I can’t beburping and farting onstage! And I’m aworkaholic. Last night, I was trying to get tosleep so I was going through the play. Drift-ing off I would be speaking the lines in myhead. The play is so conversational.” But he’sprepared to revisit it — and knows he’ll haveto give up sauces again.In part his enthusiasm for it is because it’s

an ideal show for a gay audience — and forits gay star. After all, a play about LaStreisand? What could be better?“The place it mentions is real,” Urie em-

phasizes, although the plot is a fiction. “Themall is real, Barbra Streisand is real, but thestory is not real and the guy is not … as far aswe know. She really does have a collectionand she gives tours. It’s an antique shop anda dress shop and everything else [you canimagine].” Despite its subject matter, Urie himself has

never met Streisand. But you never know.She could always show up at a performanceone night … maybe even in Dallas. That’sreason enough to come.

From ‘Betty’ to Babs, Plano native Michael Urie prepares for a rite of passage: His North Texas professional stage debut in the one-man comedy ‘Buyer & Cellar’

ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editor

Buyer & Cellar by Jonathan Tolins. WithMichael Urie. City Performance Hall, 2420 Flora St.Sept. 3–6. ATTPAC.org.


For most people, the word “burlesque” conjures up images of vaudeville theaters packed fullof rowdy working-class men whooping and whistling as woman struts across a stage, shed-ding clothing and teasing the audience by manipulating feathery fans to hide her body even

as the clothing comes off.Attend a burlesque show these days in Dallas, and you’ll see the strip and the tease. But the en-

thusiastic audience is likely to be divided between men and women. And if Lillith Grey is the oneonstage, the fans she uses are likely to be rainbow-bright.

Grey isn’t the only lesbian performing in Dallas’ burlesque scene, but then, Grey is more than justa stripper. She is one of the formative forces behind Dallas/Fort Worth’s queer performance scene.

There was a time, though — and not long ago — when Grey couldn’t fathom the idea of baringherself, body and soul, to an audience.

In 2005, she was diagnosed with syringomyelia, a disorder in which a cyst forms within a per-son’s spinal cord. Doctors told her it was degenerative — and terminal. She was advised to avoidany physical exertion.

Before long, she had become practically bedridden, her life revolving around neurological ap-pointments and medications to try and deaden the pain. She lost her job as a teacher, and becauseshe couldn’t work, she lost her car and apartment, and had to move back in with her parents.

“I had always been a dancer, a performer, and I couldn’t do any of that anymore,” Grey says. “Ifelt betrayed. I hated my body.”

Eventually, she visited a neurologist at UCLA. “He spent three hours with me,” she recalls.“Three whole hours — more than any other doctor had. They ran tests. Finally he came in and saidto me, ‘I know this will sound like bad news, but you don’t have syringomyelia.’ My life was ruinedby that diagnosis. I lost everything and I spent more than a year waiting around to die and now Ihad found out it wasn’t true.”

When she thought she was dying, there were people willing to take care of her. Without that diag-nosis, they expected her to start taking care of herself. But Grey found herself sinking into a bout ofmajor depression, until a friend named Alissa suggested that perhaps Grey consider having photosdone as a way to see herself and her body in a different light.

Grey agreed, and seeing those photos made her realize, “Maybe I am not ugly after all.” She hadbeen approached about becoming one of the Suicide Girls, a group of women with tattoos and aretro pin-up style. But a chance encounter with international fetish performer Angela Ryan took herin another direction: Ryan pointed her instead in the direction of burlesque.

She did her first burlesque performance in 2007 in McAllen “and it was terrible.” But she didn’tgive up. “When you live in a body you hate, you find yourself needing to feel seen, needing peopleto acknowledge your existence,” she says. “I needed someone else to see and appreciate my body.”

Grey, who already had two masters degrees, moved last year to Miami to complete her internshipto earn a doctorate in psychology. Combining that educational background with being a feministand a multiculturalist, she said, allows her to look at burlesque in a whole different light.

“There is a lot of shame, a lot of silencing that happens” around women’s bodies, especially thosethat don’t fit the mold of the supposed ideal. Burlesque, Grey says, “is a powerful tool in unsilenc-ing women. It is about us getting to reclaim our bodies and our sexuality.”

And in Dallas, she said, burlesque has become “very accessible.”

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TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editor

Lesbian burlesque star Lillith Greyputs mystery, and sex appeal, into areemerging performance art form

Lillith Grey discovered burlesqueonly after an incorrect medical

diagnosis made her self-consciousabout her body image, and she

sought to remedy that.

Photography by Tammye Nash


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hadi El-Khoury’s trajectory as a choreographer is not farremoved from his, and his family’s, immigrant story. Hisparents moved from their native Beirut in the late 1990s,

when he was in middle school, following the lead of other familymembers who left Lebanon during the country’s civil war in theearly 1980s. As the earlier immigrants settled in Mesquite, Texas,so did his parents and his two brothers more than a decade later.

“I have been academically successful, I got a great job — all thestuff you want for your immigrant children in America,” he says,referring to his job as a software development business consult-ant. He made his parents proud.

But even he wouldn’t have predicted how proud they’ve beenas he has found relatively quick success in pursuing is greatestpassion, dance — especially for a family that had little relation-ship to the arts. He didn’t start dancing until age 21, and now, atage 28, he has a fledgling dance company called Chado Danse(Chado, pronounced “shod-oh,” was his childhood nickname)and has been accepted to the first two dance festivals to which hehas applied: San Francisco’s PushFest in September; but first theDallas DanceFest, which comes to City Performance Hall in theDallas Arts District Aug. 29-31. (See sidebar, Page 37.)

The Dallas acceptance came as he was planning a move backto North Texas, having been in Kansas City for five years, wherehe had studied at the Conservatory of Dance and Music at theUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City before working with othercompanies and starting his own. Besides being closer to his fam-ily, he had another reason to move here: his growing romantic re-lationship with Joshua Peugh, the founder of Dark CirclesContemporary Dance, which is also performing at the DallasDanceFest.

Chado Danse will present El-Khoury’s duet Knead Me Whole atDanceFest; and he’s a featured choreographer at DCCD’s fall pro-gram at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center the followingweekend, Sept. 4-6, where his six-dancer work Words in Motionwill be presented.

“Chadi and I met nine years ago, before he began his dancetraining,” says Peugh of his partner and now artistic collaborator.“I have watched his dance career unfold and very exited to intro-duce North Texas audiences to his soothing and absorbing work.He has a very kind and generous heart and is always pushing hisown boundaries.”

“I decided to move back and pursue dance and the scenehere,” El-Khoury says. “Part of what Dallas has to offer is veryappealing. The risk, I think, will be rewarding. The DanceFest ac-ceptance, that was a great affirmation that the decision I madewas the right one.”

Growing up in Lebanon in a Marianist Catholic family, El-Khoury knew he wanted to be a dancer despite not being ex-posed to it, either live or on TV. While working on his collegedegree, in his early 20s, he started dancing without having hadany formal training. He met Peugh in the mid-2000s whenPeugh was studying dance at SMU. When Peugh went to SouthKorea, where he stayed for six years and co-founded Dark Cir-cles, El-Khoury El-Khoury decided the time was right for him topursue dance, too.

Movement came naturally, and he was accepted to the KansasCity program right away. There were setbacks. He injured hisback in an incident during a lift in a performance while workingwith Kansas City’s Charlotte Street Foundation, where he was se-lected for a yearlong residency in the Urban Culture Project. Afterhealing, he was accepted to train at the American Dance Festivalin Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and sustained another injury. Twoshoulder surgeries later and he was back in the game.

“To be honest, there has been a lot of insecurity. I starteddancing at 21 and 22, so I was much older than mostdancers, who had more experience at that age,” hesays. “But I have something to offer that’sunique. When people see my movementstyle they don’t realize that I am new toit.”

El-Khoury describes that style as con-temporary ballet, with elongated armsand twisty body positions. He saysthere are no influences from Lebaneseculture, but there’s something sensualabout his style that is reminiscent ofthe sensual arm movements in certaintypes of Middle Eastern dance.

“For me it’s about trying to be ashonest and sincere as possible, andusing my whole body, either it’s the tips ofmy fingers or anything,” he says. “Mymovement is through breathing; it’s beingvisceral and expressive, but not being literalin the expression in your face.

“It comes from wanting to dance for avery long time and having these ideas butnot being able to pursue it because I was ina place where it wasn’t possible,” he adds.“I would imagine how I would move. Mymovement for me is emotion coming tolife; it’s like when you’re in a relation-ship and there’s a spark between thetwo of you, but you don’t know howto explain it, it just happens. Danceis like that for me.”

Coming out to his traditionalLebanese family wasn’t easy forhim to do, either, but like hisimmersion into dance, theyhave evolved from being ac-cepting to being outrightproud of his accomplish-ments and devotion to hisdream.

“My motto is to be un-afraid,” he says. “[Myfamily] signed up tolove me and that’s notgoing to change.”

Dallas DanceFest, City Performance Hall, 2420 Flora St. Aug. 29 –31. DallasDanceFest.org.Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, Sanders Theater in the Fort Worth Community Arts Center,1300 Gendy St. Fort Worth. Sept. 4 –6. DarkCirclesContemporaryDance.com.

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As I was compiling the list of all the spec-tacular dance, theater, music, comedy andfine arts performances and exhibitions

scheduled for the coming year, it was difficultnot to get especially excited about some of them.So I just put it out there: What I’m excited aboutseeing. I boiled it down to a Hot 10, listed inorder of opening dates.

Are you as racked with anticipation aboutthese as I am? Then check out the full seasons ofmany major troupes and companies that followthis list, and put together your own scorecard ofthe shows you definitely wanna get tickets for.

The Hot 10The Rocky Horror Show (DTC, opens Sept.

11). Director-choreographer Joel Ferrell has a repfor enlivening familiar musicals, and his side-show casting call only whetted our appetites. It’sjust a jump to the left. ... Hands on a Hard Body (T3, opens Sept. 25).

The Broadway production was a flop, but theshow was lucky enough to record a cast albumbefore it closed, and we were wowed by thecatchy songs. Dallas’ Doug Wright wrote thebook to the musical, which turns the Texas-baseddocu-film about a contest where the grand prizeis a pickup truck into something theatrical. We’rereally interested to see how they pull it off — itseems ideal for Theatre 3’s in-the-round stage.The Marriage of Figaro (DO, opens Oct. 24).

Kevin Moriarty walks across Flora Street fromhis usual digs at the Dallas Theater Center’sWyly building to take a stab at opera — well, asecond stab. Moriarty also helmed the small-scale one-act opera The Lighthouse for the DO afew seasons back, which ran in the more intimatespace of the Wyly. This time, he’s got to fill the2,200-seat Winspear.Once (ATTPAC, opens Dec. 17). The movie

Once was one of those lightning-in-a-bottle bitsof romantic alchemy, and everything we’veheard says the stage version — a multiple Tonywinner — is equally magical. Tru (T3, opens Jan. 8, 2015). I saw Robert

Morse on Broadway in Tru, the one-man showabout bitchy gay literary lion Truman Capote,before he won the Tony, but I’m equally excitedto return to the play, 25 years later, to see howTexas’ own Jaston Williams does it. Williams hasperformed the role in the past, but not in front ofme! This is appointment theater.Kinky Boots (DSM, opens Feb. 24, 2015, and

PAFW, opens Oct. 27. 2015). Cyndi Lauper, Har-vey Fierstein and some shit-kicking thigh-highleather stilettos? Gurrrl .... you know we’re there!Colossal (DTC, opens April 2, 2015). DTC’s

last sports-themed show, The Elaborate Entrance of

Chad Deity, was a smash, but it can be a hit-or-miss relationship. Bruce Wood was planned asthe movement coordinator before he passed; wecan’t wait to see what they do without him.Rodgers+Hammerstein’s Cinderella (DSM,

opens June 9, 2015, PAFW, opens June 23, 2015).The first of two Douglas Carter Beane shows torun in Dallas simultaneously next summer, hisre-writing of the delightful classic got joyous re-views. And there’s no beating the songs. The Nance (UP, opens June 19, 2015). Beane’s

other big debut, a coup for Uptown Players, withB.J. Cleveland taking over (natch) the role cre-ated by Nathan Lane — a closeted burlesque hallcomic with a tragic streak.The Beulaville Baptist Book Club Presents:

Macbeth (MBS, opens July 16, 2015). I laughed alot the first time I saw MBS Productions’ Beulav-ille Nutcracker parody, so the move fromTchaikovsky to the Bard should be epic.

TheaterATTPAC. The touring productions at the Win-

spear (formerly called the Lexus Broadway Se-ries) got underway last week with The Phantom ofthe Opera (through Aug. 24; reviewed in thisissue), then will take a break until the regionalpremiere of the multi-Tony-winning musicalOnce (Dec. 17–28), based on the hit Irish film. In2015, there’s the return of last year’s hit The Bookof Mormon (Feb. 10–22, 2015), followed by theDisney charmer Newsies (April 29–May 10, 2015),the revival of the kid-friendly Annie (June 23–July 5, 2015) and finally Motown: The Musical(July 21–Aug. 9, 2015). Also coming in 2015 (butwith no announced dates yet): The cross-dress-ing kid-comedy Matilda. ATTPAC.org.

The center also presents its new series, Off-Broadway on Flora, which brings smaller, quirkyshows to the City Performance Hall, HamonHall in the Winspear or Potter Rose Hall in theWyly. The series begins with the premiere ofBuyer & Cellar (Sept. 3–6), starring its originalNew York star, Michael Urie (see our interviewon Page 24), followed by The Second City: 55thAnniversary Tour (Nov. 13–15), monologuistMike Daisey’s The Great Tragedies (Feb. 26–28,2015), Rude Mechs’ Stop Hitting Yourself (May28–30, 2015) and Nora Ephron’s Love, Loss andWhat I Wore (June 25–27, 2015). (The center’s on-going project of The Complete Works of WilliamShakespeare continues with monthly stagedreadings as well.) ATTPAC.org.Contemporary Theatre of Dallas. It contin-

ues its 2014 season with the current productionof the thriller Wait Until Dark (Aug. 15–Sept. 7),followed by Little Women: The Musical (Oct. 10–Nov. 2). ContemporaryTheatreOfDallas.com.

Dallas Summer Musicals and PerformingArts Fort Worth. DSM’s current season ends, forthe first time in decades, before the State Fair, withNice Work If You Can Get It (Sept. 2–14). It picksup again, with a new presenting sponsor (TexasInstruments), in time for the holidays with lastseason’s Broadway musical stage adaptationof A Christmas Story (Dec. 2–14), co-written bygay composer/lyricist Benj Pasek. Then 2015welcomes the North Texas premiere of the trans-gender smash Kinky Boots (Feb. 24–March 8,2015), followed by The King and I (March 20–April 5, 2015), then a magic show called The Illu-sionists (April 7–19, 2015). In June, there’s a quicksuccession of three shows: the still-running hitRodgers+Hammerstein’s Cinderella (June 9–21,2015), which has a new book written by gayscribe Douglas Carter Beane, immediately fol-lowed by a stage version of Dirty Dancing (June23–July 5, 2015), and the Tony-winning revivalof Pippin (July 7–19). DallasSummerMusicals.org.

Performing Arts Fort Worth begins the holi-day season early, with Elf (Nov. 18–23), followedby Beauty and the Beast (Jan. 14–18, 2015) and

Chicago (April 3–4). It will also share four showswith DSM and one with ATTPAC: the eight-timeTony-winner Once, which plays in Dallas in De-cember, will move to Cowtown in 2015 (Feb. 18–22, 2015). Three DSM shows will all play for aweek at Bass Hall following their Dallas debuts:Cinderella (June 23–28, 2015), then Dirty Dancing(July 7–12, 2015) and finally Pippin (July 21–26,2015). You can also see Kinky Boots in Fort Worthif you miss it in Dallas, though you’ll have towait until Oct. 27–Nov. 1, 2015. BassHall.com.Dallas Theater Center. Dallas’ premiere the-

ater will bobble between its two main venues(the Wyly and the Kalita) starting next monthwith the very gay Rocky Horror Show (Sept. 11–Oct. 19, at the Wyly), followed by June Squibb(Nebraska) starring in Driving Miss Daisy (Oct. 16–Nov. 16, at the Kalita). A Christmas Carol (Nov.25–Dec. 27) returns to the Wyly for its holidayrun, followed by The Book Club Play (Jan. 1–Feb.1, 2015, at the Kalita), the homegrown musicalStagger Lee (Jan. 21–Feb. 15, 2015, at the Wyly),School for Wives and Medea (Feb. 19–March 29, atthe Kalita) the sports-themed musical

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The national tour of the drag smash ‘Kinky Boots’ will make two appearances in North Texas in 2015.

A performingarts wish listMany North Texas arts companies have impressive seasons lined up, but these 10 titles are the ones that have us most excited in the coming year


The Broadway hit ‘Once’ makes its North Texas debut this December.

Colossal (April 2–May 3, 2015, at the Wyly) andSense and Sensibility (April 23–May 24, 2015,Kalita). DallasTheaterCenter.org.Kitchen Dog Theater. On the heels of a spec-

tacular few seasons, the edgy company high-lights four regional premieres: Thinner ThanWater (Sept. 19–Oct. 27), The Arsonists (Nov. 7–Dec. 13), Wilde/Earnest (March 13–April 18, 2015),a world premiere by local company member LeeTrull that adapts Oscar Wilde’s most famouswork; and the mainstage production of the 2015New Works Festival, The Firestorm (May 22–June27, 2015). KitchenDogTheater.org.Lyric Stage. Last season’s Mame got sadly

bumped from the schedule, but this season fea-tures some top-notch Golden Age musicals: Fid-dler on the Roof (Sept. 5–14), The Golden Apple(Oct. 24–Nov. 2), Annie Get Your Gun (Jan. 22–25,2015), Lady in the Dark, (April 24–May 3) and fi-nally South Pacific (July 12–21, 2015),LyricStage.org. MBS Productions. The gay-themed troupe

opens, as usual, with a classic twist for Hal-loween: Dante: Purgatori (Oct. 16–Nov. 8), fol-lowed by the return of the hit The BeulavilleBaptist Book Club Presents: A Bur-Less-Q Nut-cracker! (Nov. 28–Dec. 28). Lovely Uranus is backwith Lovely Confessions (Jan. 29–Feb. 22, 2015),then Hotel California (March 26–April 19, 2015),Dream Café (May 28–June 21, 2015) and finally anew trip to East Texas — The Beulaville BaptistBook Club Presents: Macbeth! (July 16–Aug. 9,2015). MBSProductions.net.Stage West. Fort Worth’s preeminent com-

pany is still dealing with the passing this timelast year of its founder, Jerry Russell, but thelineup will include Bedroom Farce (Oct. 16–Nov.16), The Explorers Club (Nov. 28–Jan. 4, 2015), The(curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Feb. 19–March 22, 2015), gay playwright John Logan’sRed (April 9–May 10, 2015) and the return toNorth Texas of this year’s hit from Uptown Play-ers, Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia andMasha and Spike (June 4–July 12, 2015). The sea-son will end with Mr. Burns, a post-electric play(Aug. 6–Sept. 13, 2105), a musical inspired by TheSimpsons. StageWest.org.Theatre 3. The uptown company’s mainstage

season is already underway, with Candy Barr’sLast Dance (through Aug. 31), about the colorfulmid-century stripper. It’s followed in the fall by

gay Dallas-bred playwright Doug Wright’s mostrecent Broadway show, the musical Hands on aHard Body (Sept. 25–Oct. 19), based on the docu-mentary set in Texas. The holiday productionwill be a musical by lesbian playwright andPulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel (How I Learnedto Drive) called Civil War Christmas (Nov. 20–Dec.14), set along the Potomac during the bitter win-ter of 1864. Jaston Williams is on deck for JayPresson Allen’s Tru (Jan. 8–Feb. 8, 2015), a one-man show about Truman Capote. That’s fol-lowed by Hot Mikado (March 12–April 5, 2015),an outlandish adaptation of the Gilbert & Sulli-van classic. The sixth show of the season (sched-uled for May 2015) has not be announced, butthe season closer will be The Liar (June 25–July19, 2015), Corneille’s classic comedy adapted byDavid Ives (Venus in Fur). In Theatre Too: Thecurrent hit Shear Madness continues throughSept. 20 (see story Page 30), then next year, thereturn of gay writer Joe DiPietro’s I Love You,You’re Perfect, Now Change (Jan. 15, 2015 with noset closing date). Theatre3Dallas.com.Uptown Players. The company’s official sea-

son ended last week, but the 2014 Pride Perform-ing Arts Festival is still on deck for the fall, (Sept.12–20). It will include a concert version of TheLast Session and Dan Savage Live. The 2015 sea-son begins in 2014, with the annual BroadwayOur Way fundraiser now called Christmas OurWay (Dec. 11–14), followed by the bonus show inthe Rose Room, the parody Gilligan’s Fire Island(Feb. 13–March 15, 2015). The mainstage seasonwill be The Nance (June 19–July 5, 2015), Catch MeIf You Can (July 24–Aug. 9, 2015), Hedwig and theAngry Inch (Aug. 28–Sept. 13, 2015) and Harbor(Oct. 9–Nov. 7, 2015). UptownPlayers.org.WaterTower Theatre. The season — the 15th

for WTT’s artistic director, Terry Martin — openswith a musical biography with Dallas roots: Bon-nie & Clyde (Oct. 10–Nov. 2), which had a briefrun on Broadway two seasons ago. That’s fol-lowed by a new holiday show built around a fa-miliar theme, The Great American Trailer ParkChristmas Musical (Dec. 5–Jan. 4, 2015), which fol-lows the antics of The Great American Trailer ParkMusical, which WTT has produced in the past toacclaim. The Explorers Club, co-produced withStage West, runs Jan. 16–Feb. 8, 2015, followed

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Dance troupe Diavolo brings its architectural movement to Dallas.

by Arthur Miller’s Tony Award-winningdrama All My Sons (April 17–May 10, 2015).Local playwright Vicki Caroline Cheatwood de-buts her new play Manicures & Monuments (June5–28, 2015), and the season closes out with themusical Sweet Charity (July 14–Aug. 16, 2015). Inaddition, the theater’s annual Out of the LoopFringe Festival returns for its 14th incarnation,March 5–15, 2015. WaterTowerTheatre.org.WingSpan Theatre Co. This quirky small the-

ater is among the gay-friendliest in town, asshown by its 17th season centerpiece by a fa-vorite playwright: Tennessee Williams’ The TwoCharacter Play with Lulu Ward and Kevin ScottKeating (Oct. 9–24). WingSpanTheatre.com.

(You can see seasons for more area companiesat CircleTheatre.com, JubileeTheatre.org., TheatreArlington.org and Undermain.org.)

Opera and MusicThe Dallas Opera. The season kicks off with

DTC’s Kevin Moriarty helming The Marriage ofFigaro (Oct. 24, 26m, 29, Nov. 1, 7 and 9m), thenSalome (Oct. 30, Nov. 2m, 5, 8 and 16), the dualperformances of La Wally (Act IV) and Everest(Jan. 30, Feb. 1m, 4, and 7, 2015), the world’s fa-vorite opera, La Boheme (March 13, 15m, 18, 21,27 and 29m, 2015) and finally Iolanta (April 10,12m, 15 and 18, 2015). DallasOpera.org.Fort Worth Opera. The moment the Dallas

Opera season ends, FWO picks up the slackwith its annual Spring Festival, with three op-eras performing in repertory: The new workDog Days (April 24, 26, 28, 29, May 1 and 2m,2015, at the Scott Theatre), Verdi’s revolutionarytragic masterpiece La Traviata (April 25, May 3mand 9, at Ball Hall) and Hamlet (May 2 and 10m,2015). FWOpera2015.org.ATTPAC. Music and comedy shows are also

part of the ATTPAC lineup, including virtuosofiddler Joshua Bell (Nov. 6), queermedianPaula Poundstone (Jan. 31, 2015) in concert, thedazzling sound of 2Cellos (Feb. 26, 2015) andvelvet voiced gay singing icon Johnny Mathis(June 11, 2015) among them. (See also musicperformances from TITAS, below.)ATTPAC.org.

Dance and Ballet Texas Ballet Theater. Cowtown-based TBT

launches in October with Sleeping Beauty (Oct. 17–19, at Bass Hall), then the Christmas staple playsboth Fort Worth and Dallas: The Nutcracker (Nov.28–Dec. 7, at the Winspear; Dec. 12–27, at Bass).There will also be a special presentation of TheNutty Nutcracker on Dec. 19. 2015 meets The MerryWidow (Feb. 6–8, 2015, Bass Hall), Masterworks(April 17–19, 2015, Dallas’ CPH) and finally Artis-tic Director’s Choice (May 29–31, Bass). TexasBal-letTheater.org.TITAS. The experimental dance troupe

MOMIX arrives for two shows (Sept. 12–13), fol-lowed by the debut of Youssou N’Dour (a music,not dance, program) (Sept. 19), then the debutof Spectrum Dance Company (Sept. 27). All ofthose performances will be at the Winspear, thenperformances move across the street to City Per-formance Hall for the debut of Brian Brooks Mov-ing Company (Nov. 21–22), back to the Winspearfor Ronald K. Brown/Evidence (Jan. 17, 2015),then two more shows at CPH for musician MayaBeiser (March 6–7, 2015) and architectural dancetroupe Diavolo (March 27–28, 2015), then the pop-ular Parsons Dance Company is back at the Win-spear (April 25, 2015). The season concludes withMalandain’s Ballet Biarritz (May 1–2, 2015, atCPH), and the local debut of Ballet West (May 29–30, 2015, at the Winspear). TITAS also hostsits Command Performance Gala at the Winspear(May 16, 2015). ATTPAC.org.

Fine ArtsDallas Museum of Art. The DMA has three

current exhibits which continue through the fall:From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelryof Arthur Smith (through Dec. 7), Concentrations57: Slavs and Tatars (through Dec. 14) and Mind’sEye: Masterwords on Paper from David toCezanne (Oct. 26). New exhibits coming soon in-clude Isa Genzken: Retrospective (Sept. 14–Jan. 4,2015) which looks at the influential contemporaryfemale artist and Bouquets: French Still Life Paint-ing from Chardin to Matisse (Oct. 26–Feb. 8, 2015).Next year welcomes Shiraga/Motonaga: BetweenAction and the Unknown (Feb. 8–July 19, 2015),Concentrations 58: Chosil Kil (Feb. 22–July 19,2015) and Michael Borresman: As Sweet As It Gets(March 15–July 5, 2015). DMA.org.

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After her performance in McAllen, Greycontinued to practice and perform, perfect-ing her art of the tease until “I finally got apiece accepted” in a Viva Dallas Burlesqueshow. Now, she is a regular performer withViva Dallas and its Cirque de Burlesqueshow.

In 2011, Grey joined the cast of MustacheEnvy, a “community of drag kings andother queer performers who are setting outto re-awaken the art of the drag king in theDallas/Fort Worth Metroplex,” according tothe Mustache Envy website. Grey wasemcee for the shows, and the next year shestarted Panty Raid, a sister show.

“Mustache was very king-oriented, so Itried to emphasize variety and burlesque”in the Panty Raid events, Grey says. She ranPanty Raid independently until January.That’s when she handed it over to MustacheEnvy after moving to Florida to completeher master’s degree in counseling.

“I stepped down as producer when I left,and Lily Lovely took over, with me mentor-ing [her],” Grey says. “[Lily] produced for ayear, then mentored Fun Size. [Lily] movedto Portland [earlier this summer], so the Julyshow was Fun Size’s first solo production.”

Mustache and Panty Productions partici-pate in a number of LGBT communityevents, from fundraising shows to the an-nual Pride parade. “We have performed atRazzle Dazzle, and [at benefit shows] atSMU and UNT, and at other benefits andevents,” she says. “After years of workingon committees and boards and dealing withall that mess, it’s really refreshing to be in agroup that is super collaborative anddrama-free.”

Mustache Envy shows are held on the firstFriday of “even” months — February, April,June, August, October and December. They“tend toward the masculine,” Grey says, butwith a femme host and “stage kitten” (the per-son who picks up the stage after each act andhelps with props, etc.).

Panty Raid shows, on the other hand, usuallylean more toward burlesque performers anddrag queens, “often with masculine types ashost and support,” according to Grey. Theseshows are held on the first Friday of each “odd”month (January, March, May, July, Septemberand November).

“All the shows are theatrical and genderfuckyand super glamorous awesome fun!” Grey says.

In March of 2013, the year after she startedPanty Raid, Grey decided she wasn’t busyenough, so she started the Tuesday Tease showsat Sue Ellen’s. The Tease, she said, is a “totallyseparate project” intended to create “a sort ofcurated open-stage experience for LGBQs andthe trans community. There’s a lot of crossoverin terms of who is involved, but the productionof the Tease is handled completely separatelyfrom Mustache/Panty,” Grey says. The Tease iscurrently produced by Grey, Vivienne Vermuth(“also known as Vincent Vermuth, depending

on the night”) and Buck Wylde.While she was in Miami, Grey was more

hands-off, “but now that I am back, I’ll be work-ing more directly with the shows again,” shesays.

Grey and her fellow producers keep the qual-ity level high for Tease shows, making sure tobook “big-name headliners” every week. Butthey also make sure to save room for an entry-level performer and an intermediate performer.The idea is to provide quality entertainmentwhile also giving new performers the opportu-nity and support needed to get onstage.

“Everyone involved — from the audience tothe bar staff to the performers to the producers— brings a really supportive, collaborative en-ergy,” Grey says. “In the dressing room on anygiven Tuesday, you can find performers of alllevels exchanging ideas and supporting and en-couraging each other.”

The Tease is “committed to being identity-af-firming,” which means that “we actively seekout and create space for people who might notbe able to bring their brand of performance to amore mainstream stage,” she says. “We are ded-icated to diversity, and we are careful to be surewe cast people of all shapes and sizes and abili-ties and identities as a rule, not as an exception.”

On top of all that, everyone participating in


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the shows — cast and crew — gets paid. “Itmight not be much,” Grey says, “but everybodygets something.”

Another of Grey’s endeavors — The Acad-emy of Queerlesque — can help them make theleap from Tuesdays to Fridays. She and a slateof mentors, including burlesque performers,drag kings, drag queens and more, offer men-torship and education to queer performers look-ing to advance their skills on stage. Class andmentor fees at the academy of currently dona-tion based, with a suggested donation of $5–$10per person for classes and $15 –$20 an hour forindividual sessions with a mentor.

Grey is also looking to restart the DirtyPanties performances again, a monthly series ofqueer erotica readings she produced before sheleft for Miami. “We lost our venue, though, andhaven’t been able to do it [recently]. It was verypopular, though, and I hope we can find a spaceagain now that I’m back,” she says.

And there’s more. Grey used to perform atfetish events — she performed at the last sixDallas Fetish Balls — but has chosen to cut backon performing to focus more on emceeing, men-torship and production. She travels and pres-ents frequently on the conference circuit withinthe sex positive community, and will be partici-pating in September at the Catalyst Con West.She leads diversity training and other work-

shops and works as an interpreter and teacherfor the deaf.

“I was the first hearing emcee to emcee en-tirely in ASL at Deaf Leather in 2012,” Greysays. “I’ve also interpreted for Aerosmith andZZ Top and for other awesome stuff, too.”

But right now, it is burlesque and queerlesquethat holds her attention.

“There is a fierce burlesque community herein Dallas — fierce!” she says. “Without them, Icouldn’t have gone to Miami. Viva Dallas Bur-lesque did a fundraiser for me. And friends setup a fundraising page for me [online at YouCaring.com], and this community raised$5,000 in two weeks.”

Grey says burlesque is a means of expressionthat lets her tell the world who she is and whatshe believes, and a community that gives herthe support she needs.

“For me, burlesque is a political statement,every time, no matter what. If I hadn’t comeacross burlesque when I did, I don’t knowwhere I’d be right now. It saved my life. It cer-tainly saved my relationship with my body.”


YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE DANCIN’: GAYLE HALPERIN ON DALLAS’ DANCE SCENE

Dallas’ performing arts scene has been growing tremendouslyin the past recent years, and although that momentum hasmainly been propelled by theater, dance is on its heels.“We have seen a surge, over the past four years, and it’s won-

derful,” says Gayle Halperin about the dance scene. “There aremore dancers here now, and there are older professionals whowant to create and produce work. Everything has been invigor-ated, it’s been the hope of the Dallas Arts District and it was thischain reaction. You can find funding; it’s hard, but you can.”Halperin, pictured, has been a key figure behind that growth,

resurrecting Bruce Wood Dance Project (formerly Bruce WoodDance Company) and, along with the folks at the Dance Councilof North Texas, working toward the first Dallas DanceFest, whichhappens Aug. 29-31 at City Performance Hall.A preview dance festival took place in Annette Strauss Artist

Square where the Winspear now sits, but it folded in 2004. Therewas much expense with producing an outdoor festival, and al-ways the possibility that weather would cancel performances.Now in the great air-conditioned indoors, DanceFest has the lux-ury of being at one of the best large houses for dance in NorthTexas. City Performance Hall is also cheaper to rent in the off-season months of July and August. Even with those perks,Halperin considers a greater perk that the participating compa-nies, which range from small budget to large, are getting: Austin-based dance lighting designer Tony Tucci.“These companies are going to have the opportunity to work with one of the best lighting designers in the world, Tony Tucci,”

Halperin says. “I’m having a top-notch crew, too.”Halperin, who runs Bruce Wood Dance Project and has taken on a bigger role with that company after the untimely death of

Wood this summer, sees the DanceFest as another step to put North Texas dance on the national map. (BWDP will continue, withits next show at CPH Sept. 13 and 14.) She hopes it attracts more companies from outside North Texas as the event grows, but itwill always be focused on local groups with diverse styles.“We selected companies that span from classical ballet to contemporary ballet, and include classical Indian, tap and jazz,”

she says.The showcases are the evenings of Aug. 29 and 30, and feature the following companies: Dallas Ballet Company, Ewert &

Company, Indique Dance Company, Rhythmic Souls, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Chamberlain Performing Arts, Houston MET-dance, Chado Danse, Avant Chamber Ballet, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Tarrant CountyCollege Movers Unlimited, Mejia Ballet International, Bruce Wood Dance Project, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, Texas BalletTheater, SMU Meadows Dance Ensemble. On Aug. 31, the Dance Council will present its annual Dance Council Honors, recognizing the work of Nita Braun, Ann Briggs-

Cutaia and Joe Cutaia, Buster Cooper, Dylis Croman, Suzy Jary and Beth Wortley.— Mark Lowry

Viva Dallas Burlesque, Lakewood Theater,1825 Abrams Parkway. Performances on the firstFriday of each month; next performance: Sept. 5.VivaDallasBurlesque.com.


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Fort Worth Home & Garden Show opens this weekend

It’s back to school time, and for gay folks that means time to swap out summer plantsfor fall and go on a swatch hunt for the new autumn colors. And the place to do it isthe Fort Worth Home & Garden Show, where you’ll get tons of good advice.

DEETS: Fort Worth Convention Center, 1201 Houston St., Fort Worth. Aug. 16–17.$10. TexasHomeAndGarden.com.

Thriller ‘Wait Until Dark’jumps out at you at CTD

It was one of the signature thrillers ofthe 1960s — the film version of Wait

Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn, abouta blind woman terrorized by shadyvillains in her Greenwich Villageapartment. But before it was a movie, itwas a tense stage play, where thetwists and turns are actually morebone-chilling. Contemporary Theatremounts this classic of the genre.

DEETS: Greenville Center for the Arts,5601 Sears St. Aug. 15–Sept. 7.ContemporaryTheatreOfDallas.com.

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Gaybingo enters 14thyear with Toga Party

The Resource Center beganits Gaybingo fundraiser inJuly of 2001, so this month’sedition marks the start of its14th year of fun and games— and always with a theme.The theme this time aroundis Toga Party, but you don’tneed to be a fan of Animal

House to come up withsomething fun and sexy towear, from slave girl togladiator. As for us, we’rejust hoping to enjoy thechance to win money andprizes, raise money for RCand laugh a lot.

DEETS: The Rose Roominside S4, 3911 CedarSprings Road. 5 p.m. doors,6 p.m. play. $25–$40.RCDallas.org.

ARtsWeeK: NOW PlAyiNGTHEATER

Broken: The Musical. A story about tragedy and

justice, it deals with the many untested and lost rape kits

that deny justice to many victims. Proceeds benefit the

Dallas Rape Crisis Center. Final weekend. Gilley’s,

1135 S. Lamar St. BrokenTheMusical.com.

Candy Barr’s Last Dance. A new play by Dallas writer

Ronnie Claire Edwards about the mid-century stripper.

Theatre 3, 2800 Routh St. in the Quadrangle.

Through Sept. 14. Theatre3Dallas.com.

Dogfight. Charming musical by out composer Benj

Pasek and Justin Paul, about Marines pulling a cruel

prank on plain-looking girls on the eve of being shipped

off to Vietnam. Final weekend. Addison Theatre Centre,

15650 Addison Road. WaterTowerTheatre.org.

Full Gallop. A one-woman show about Diana Vreeland,

the famed editor of Harper’s Bazaar (and later Vogue)

who helped establish the benchmark for fashion in the

U.S. A regional premiere starring Diana Sheehan.

Reviewed this week. Studio Theatre at the Addison

Theatre Centre, 15650 Addison Road. Through Aug. 31.

WaterTowerTheatre.org.

Herbbits, Wizards and Borks, Oh My! A popcorn-

tosser satirizes the Lord of the Rings movies.

Final weekend. Pocket Sandwich Theatre,

5400 Mockingbird Lane., #119. 214-821-1860.

Les Miserables. The Dallas Theater Center closes its

season with this inventive reimagining of the modern

classic. Final weekend. Wyly Theatre, 2400 Flora St.

DallasTheaterCenter.org.

Wait Until Dark. The creepy, tense thriller about a blind

woman being terrorized by murderous drug dealers

opens courtesy of Contemporary Theatre of Dallas.

Greenville Center for the Arts. 5601 Sears St. Aug

15–Sept. 7. ContemporaryTheatreOfDallas.com.

The Phantom of the Opera. An all-new production of

the monster hit settles in for a three-week engagement.

Reviewed this week. Winspear Opera House,

2403 Flora St. Through Aug. 24. ATTPAC.org.

FINE ARTS

Concentrations 57: Slavs and Tatars. An international

art collection, in display as part of the DMA’s

Concentrations Series. Dallas Museum of Art,

1717 Harwood St. Through Dec. 14. DMA.org.

fRiDAy 08.15COMMUNITY

Glitter Ball. The annual fantabulous dance party,

with complimentary shirt check at the door.

S4, 3911 Cedar Springs Road.

9 p.m. doors. $7–$15. Caven.com.

sAtURDAy 08.16COMMUNITY

Gaybingo. The monthly dragtastic bingo game and

fundraiser for Resource Center takes on the themes

Toga Party Bingo. The Rose Room inside S4,

3911 Cedar Springs Road.

5 p.m. doors, 6 p.m. curtain. $25–$40. RCDallas.org.

HNO in Dallas. The Big Easy fundraiser called

Halloween New Orleans — which benefits the AIDS

treatment organization Project Lazarus — holds a

promotional cocktail party in Dallas. The Grapevine Bar,

3902 Maple Ave. 4–6 p.m. HalloweenNewOrleans.com.

DIGS

Fort Worth Home & Garden Show. The 24th annual

expo of builders, remodelers and service providers for

indoors and out. Fort Worth Convention Center, 1201

Houston St., Fort Worth. Aug. 16, 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Aug.

17, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. $10. TexasHomeAndGarden.com.

SPORTS

FrontRunners. Gay jogging group meets at 8:30 a.m.

at the statue in Lee Park for a run along the Katy Trail

sUNDAy 08.17CONCERTS

Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails. The iconic ’90s

rockers co-headline a concert at Gexa Energy Pavilion

(formerly Starplex), 1818 First Ave. in Fair Park. 7 p.m.

LiveNation.com.

tUesDAy 08.19FILM

Valley of the Dolls. Few terrible movies are as iconic to

gay audiences as this camp classic, about boozy,

druggy celebs in Hollywood. (One of the characters is

based on Judy Garland, as if it needed to be even

gayer.) The celebrated “Theme from Valley of the Dolls”

is just as memorable as the performances. Part of the

Tuesday New Classic series at Landmark’s Magnolia in

the West Village, sponsored by Dallas Voice. 7:30 p.m.

and 10 p.m.

tHURsDAy 08.21BROADCAST

Project Runway. Season 13 continues with Heidi, Nina,

Zac and Tim. Airs on Lifetime at 8 p.m.


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The version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, onstage at the Winspear

through Aug. 24, feels like a fresher, hipper version of a musical that’s — gasp! — nearly 30

years old. Old things don’t usually seem younger, but when you add a flavor of steampunk and

sex appeal, plus erase a few crow’s feet from the principal cast, it’s remarkable how much you

can enliven a familiar story.

The plot — which liberally changes the original Gaston Leroux novel — involves a 19th cen-

tury ingenue mentored by a mysterious ghost of the opera house, groomed to be his master-

piece ... until she rejects him and he plots gruesome revenge. The Phantom has always been

presented with melodramatic brio, with Svengali-like hand choreography that even Celine Dion

would find excessive. He’s often breathless and spooookkky, a sad old hermit crossing over

into insanity. But here he’s presented as youthful, energetic, determined. There’s real sexual

electricity between him and Christine Daae, not some overwrought potboiler.

The weaknesses persist: The synthesizer arrangement on the title song still sounds dated,

and the second act isn’t as tuneful or well-paced as the first. But it’s long overdue that someone

reimagined this long-running juggernaut. It’s never too late to rediscover a classic.

Diana Vreeland was an intriguing combination of Katharine Hepburn, smoke-stained lounge

singer, ageing geisha and George-Burns-in-drag-as-Easter-Island-totem in both look and

sound. She was a homely woman, with middle-brow tastes, yet for nearly half a century she

was the fashion authority in America — first at Harper’s Bazaar, then at Vogue, before being un-

ceremoniously fired from the latter in 1971. That’s probably more information about her career

than you’ll glean from Full Gallop at WaterTower Theatre, a frustratingly superficial if occasion-

ally enjoyable one-woman show (with Diana Sheehan as the doyenne).

Set soon after her departure from Vogue, it’s part interactive audience monologue, part tele-

phone call exposition that captures Vreeland’s idiosyncracies but not much more. “I'm a great

believer in vulgarity. Bad taste is fine — no taste bores me,” Sheehan — her arms raised tri-

umphantly like a referee following extra point — shouts with a flourish; she flourishes a lot in

this show (“blue jeans are the greatest invention since the gondola!” is another), which hints at

the woman’s personality but not her career. The second half, in fact, is a marathon of name-

dropping. “No one gives a damn about authenticity if it’s ugly,” Vreeland declares. Maybe true;

but a little substance wouldn’t hurt.

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DISHMAN, KEITH; OPTOMETRIST— 4311 Oak Lawn, #125;214-521-0929; idrdishman.com.

DUNN, PAUL, D.D.S. — 1110 N. Buckner Blvd; 214-784-5944FLOSS— 3131 Lemmon Ave.; 214-978-0101; flossdental.com.GRAGERT, AMY (PSYCHOTHERAPY) — 2610 State St.;

6015 Berkshire; 214-740-1600.GRANETO, DONALD., MD — (General Practice/HIV Medicine);

2929 Carlisle St., # 260; 214-303-1033; uptownphysiciansgroup.com.

HUPERT, MARK J., M.D. — (Infectious Disease);3801 Gaston Ave., #300; 214-828-4702.

INFINITY FOOT AND ANKLE— 2501 Oak lawn # 201,972-274-5708; infinityfootandankle.com.

KINDLEY, DR. GARY, D. MIN. — (Pastoral Counselor) 3906 Lemmon Ave., #400; 817-312-9919; drgk.org.

LEE, DAVID M., M.D. — (Internal Medicine/HIV Medicine); 2929 Carlisle; #260; 214-303-1033, uptownphysiciansgroup.com.

LOVELL, CYNTHIA, M.E.D, L.P.C.— Counselor; 5217 McKinney Ave., #210; 214-497-6268; lpccynthialovell.vpweb.com

MARTIN, DAVID, MD;— (Plastic Surgeon); 7777 Forest Ln., Ste. C-625; 972-566-6988.

MARTIN, RANDY, L.P.C.— (Psychotherapy); 214-520-7575.OAK LAWN DERMATOLOGY— 3500 Oak Lawn, Ave., Ste. 650;

214-520-8100; oaklawndermatology.com.PALETTI, ALFRED J., DDS — 5510 Abrams Rd., #102;

214-691-2969.PARKLAND HOSPITAL — 5201 Harry Hines Blvd.;

214-590-8000; phhs.com..*POUNDERS, STEVEN M., M.D. —

3500 Oak Lawn Ave., #600; 214-520-8833.PHILIPS, KAY, M.D. — (Baylor); 9101 N. Central, #300;

214-363-2305.PRIDE PHARMACY GROUP — 2929 Carlisle St., #115;

214-954-7389; pridepharmacygroup.com.SAFIR, DR. ALLEN — (Doctor Eyecare); 4414 Lemmon Ave.

doctoreyecare.com; 214-522-3937.SALAS, MICHAEL — (Vantage Point Counseling);

4141 Office Parkway, 75204; 214-471-8650; vantagepointdallascounseling.com.

SPECTRUM CHIROPRACTIC & ACUPUNTURE— 3906 Lemmon,; #214; 214-520-0092; spectrumchiropractic.com.

*STONEWALL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, INC.— 3626 N. Hall, #723; 214-521-1278; 1-888-828-TALK;stonewall-inc.com.

TERRELL, KEVIN, DDS, PC — (Dentist); 2603 Oak Lawn Ave.,#100; 214-329-1818; terrelldental.com.

THRIVE INSTITUTE — 4020 Oaklawn Ave.; 214-420-0100;thrive-institute.com.

TOTAL MED SOLUTIONS— 5445 La Sierra Dr., Ste 420; 214-987-9200; 6101 Windcom Ct., Ste 300; 214-987-9203.

TOTAL VEIN TREATMENT CENTERS— 5232 Forest Ln., # 100; 972-839-4816; totalveintreatmentcenters.com.

TRIBBLE, DR. MARC A. — 2929 Carlisle St., #260;214.303.1033,; uptownphysiciansgroup.com.

TSENG, EUGENE, D.D.S.— 3300 Douglas, Ste. A; 214-855-0789.

*UPTOWN PHYSICIANS GROUP— 2929 Carlisle St., #260;214-303-1033, uptownphysiciansgroup.com.

UPTOWN PSYCHOTHERAPY— 4144 N. Central Expwy., #520;214-824-2009; uptownpsychotherapy.com.

UPTOWN VISION — 2504 Cedar Springs; 214-953-EYES; uptownvisiondallas.com.

VASQUEZ CLINIC — 2929 Welborn; 214-528-1083;vasquesclinic.com.

• insuranceALEX LONG INSURANCE AGENCY — (Alex Long);

3435 N. Belt Line Rd., #119; 972-570-7000 or877-570-8008; alexlonginsuranceagency.com.

IRVIN INSURANCE SERVICES — (Farmers);14651 Dallas Pkwy., # 110; 972-367-6200.

STEVEN GRAVES INSURANCE AGENCY — 2919 Welborn, Ste 100; 214-599-0808; stevengravesinsurance.com.

• private�clubs*CLUB DALLAS— 2616 Swiss; 214-821-1990; the-clubs.com.*MIDTOWNE SPA — 2509 Pacific; 214-821-8989;

midtowne.com.

• real�estateAULD, ANGELA— (Ebby); 817-291-5903.BUYADALLASHOME.COM — 214-500-0007.DPL FLATS— (Array Capitol Investment);

214-886-2898FLEENOR, KIRSTEN— 222 Browder St.; 214-747-0700;

dplflats.comHENRY, JOSEPH — (Keller Williams); 214-520-4122;

[email protected] & HABGOOD — (Dave Perry Miller);

2828 Routh, #100: 214-752-7070; hewitthabgood.com.LONE STAR GAS LOFTS— 300 S. St. Paul St; 214-748-0300;

lsglofts.comILUME — 4123 Cedar Springs Rd.; 214-520-0588; ilume.com.MARTIN, KEN— (David Griffin); 214-293-5218.NALL, STEVE — (Virginia Cook); 972-248-5429;

texashomeguy.com.NESSEL DEVELOPMENT— 6603 E. Lovers Ln.;888-836-8234;

nesselinc.com.NUCIO, TONY— (Nucio Realty Group); 3100 Monticello, #200;

214-395-0669; dallascitycenter.com.ORAM, MARK— (Keller Williams); 214-850-1674;

gayrealestateagent.comPARKER, BRIAN— (Ebby’s Urban Alliance); 214-443-4909;

wcondosdallas.com.PNC MORTGAGE— 8235Douglas Ave.; 972-473-8924;

pncmortgage.com.SILBRO ENTERPRISES — 972-525-0234; silbrodfw.com.SALADIN, MARTY—1227 Fern Ridge Pkwy #200;

St. Louis, MO 877.763.8111;midwestmortgagecapitol.com.

SORRENTO, THE — 8616 Turtle Creek Blvd.; 214-369-3400;sorrentodallas.com.

SOUTHWESTERN, THE — 5959 Maple Ave.; 214-352-5959;thesouthewestern.com.

WATERMARK— wartermarkreg.com.; (Joe DeuPree); 214-559-5690; ( George Durstine); 214-559-6090; (Danny Allen Scott); 972-588-8304

WYNN REALTY — (Craig Patton); 18636 Vista Del Sol Dr.;469-449-9917; wynnrealty.com.

YONICK, KEITH — Realtor; 214-686-1586 .

• restaurantsAI SUSHI SAKE GRILL— 4123 Cedar Springs Rd.;

214-468-4587; aisushidallas.com.*ALFREDO’S PIZZA — 4043 Trinity Mills, #108;

972-307-1678.*ALL GOOD CAFE — 2934 Main St.; 214-742-5362.*ANGELA’S CAFE—7929 Inwood, #121; 214-904-8122.*AVILA’S—4714 Maple Ave.; 214-520-2700;

aviliasrestaurant.com*BLACK-EYED PEA — 3857 Cedar Springs; 214-521-4580.*BURGER ISLAND — 4422-B Lemmon Ave.; 214-443-0015.*BUZZBREWS KITCHEN — 4334 Lemmon Ave.; 214-521-

4334; 4154 Fitzhugh; 214-826-7100; buzzbrews.com.CHILI’S — 3230 Knox; 214-520-1555; chilis.com.CREMONA KITCHEN— 2704 Worthington.; 214-871-115.

cremonabistro.com*DICKEY’S BARBECUE— 2525 Wycliff Ave.; 214-780-0999;

dickeys.com.*EINSTEIN BROTHERS BAGELS — 3827 Lemmon Ave.,;

214-526-5221; 3050 University, Ft. Worth, 817-923-3444.*THE GREAT AMERICAN HERO— 4001 Lemmon Ave.;

214-521-2070.HARD ROCK CAFE — 2211 N. Houston St.; 469-341-7625;

hardrock.com.*HOWARD WANG’S UPTOWN — 3223 Lemmon Ave.;

214-954-9558; hwrestaurants.com.*HUNKY’S — 4000 Cedar Springs and 321 N. Bishop St.;

214-522-1212; hunkys.com.

JOHNATHON’S OAK CLIFF— 1111 N. beckley Ave.;214-946-2221; johnathonsoakcliff.com

KOMALI MEXICAN CUISINE—4152 Cole Ave. #106; 214-252-0200.

*MAMA’S DAUGHTERS’ DINER— 2014 Irving Blvd.; 214-742-8646; mamasdaughtersdiner.com.

*MAIN STREET CAFÉ — 2023 S. Cooper, Arlington; 817-801-9099.

*MCDONALD’S — 4439 Lemmon Ave.; 214-522-0697.*POP DINER — 3600 McKinney Ave.; 214-599-8988;

popdinerusa.comSAKHUU THAI CUISINE — 4810 Bryan St., Ste 100;

214-828-9300; sakhuu.com.*SAL’S PIZZA — 2525 Wycliff; 214-522-1828.SALUM—4152 Cole Ave. #103; 214-252-9604*SPIRAL DINER AND BAKERY— 1101 N. Beckley;

214-948-4747.*STARBUCK COFFEE — 3330 Oak Lawn,

214-219-0369; 4101 Lemmon Ave, 214-522-3531.*STRATOS GREEK TAVERNA — 2907 W. Northwest Hwy.;

214-352-3321; clubstratos.com.TEXAS LAND AND CATTLE — 3130 Lemmon Ave.;

214-526-4664; www.txlc.com.*THAIRIFFIC — 4000 Cedar Springs; 972-241-2412;

thairrific.com.TILLMAN’S ROADHOUSE — 324 W. 7th St.; 214-942-0988;

tillmansroadhouse.com.TWO CORKS AND A BOTTLE— 2800 Routh St. # 140

( the quadrangle); 75251; 214-871-WINE (9463); twocorksandabottle.com.

VERACRUZ CAFE — 408 N. Bishop St. #107.; 214-948-4746; veracruzcafedallas.com.

WENDY KRISPIN -CATERER — 214-748-5559; wendykrispincaterer.com.

• servicesAGAIN & AGAIN— 1202 N. Riverfront; 214-746-6300;

againandagain.comALLEN, RON, CPA, P.C. — 2909 Cole Ave., #300;

214-954-0042.ALTA MERE TINTING— 4302 Lemmon Ave.; 214-521-7477;

altameredallas.com.ANTIQUE FLOORS — 1221 Dragon St.; 214-760-9330;

antiquefloors.net.ANTIQUE GALLERY OF LEWISVILLE— 1165 S. Stemmons

Fwy. #126 .; 972-219-0474; antiquegallerylewisville.com.ANTIQUE GALLERY OF MESQUITE— 3330 N. Galloway #225.;

972-270-7700; antiquegallerymesquite.com.BLUE RIBBON HEAT & AIR — 10033 Lake Highlands Pl.,

75218; 214-823-8888; blueribbonheatandair.com.CAMPBELL CUSTOM CONSTRUCTION — 214-802-2280;

cccdallas.com.CONSIGNMENT SOLUTIONS — 1931 Skillman St.;

214-827-8022; consignmentsolution.com.ECA VAPE1 — 2525 Inwood #125; 214-357-8273 (VAPE);

ecavape1.com.ELITE VALET — 972-247-7073; elitevaletinc.com.*ENERGY FITNESS — 2901 Cityplace West Blvd.;

214-219-1900.FLOATSTORAGE.COM— floatstorage.com GIACO, ERNIE CPA — 817-731-7450.GREAT SKIN BY LYNNE — 4245 N. Central Expy., #450;

214-526-6160; greatskinbylynne.com.*HOLLYWOOD STYLE NAILS — 3523 Oak Lawn;

214-526-7133. HOPE COTTAGE — (Adoption); 4209 McKinney Ave.;

214-526-8921; hopecottage.org. IDEAL DENTAL — 4323 Lemmon Ave.; 214-278-6557;

idealdentaluptown.com.*JESSICA HAIR SALON — 4420 Lemmon; 214-521-9244.LIFELONG ADOPTIONS — 888-829-0891;

lifelongadoptions.comLUX: A TANNING SALON — 4411 Lemmon Ave., #105; 75219;

214-521-4589; luxtandallas.com.NORAM CAPITOL HOLDINGS— 15303 N. Dallas Pkwy., #1030

214-498-3000; noramcapitol.com.NORTH HAVEN GARDENS — 7700 Northaven Rd.;

214-363-5316: ngh.com.THE NAIL SPA DALLAS — 4020 Cedar Springs Rd.;

214-526-6245; thenailspadallas.com.*POOCH PATIO — 3811 Fairmount; 214-252-1550.PORTRAIT SKETCHES BY DAVID PHILIPS — 214-498-6273;

drphilips.net.SALON AURA —3910 Cedar Springs; 75219; 214-443-0454.SARDONE CONSTRUCTION — 4447 N. Central Expwy #11C;

972-786-5849; sardoneconstruction.comSYNTHETIC GRASS PROS — 500 E. State Hwy 121, #D;

972-420-7800; syntheticgrasspros.com.*SIR SPEEDY — 2625 Oak Lawn; 214-522-2679.

SPCA OF TEXAS — 2400 Lone Star Dr.; 214-461-1829;spca.org.

*SUPERCUTS— 4107 Lemmon Ave.; 214-522-1441; supercuts.com.

TADDY’S PET SERVICES— 214-732-4721;taddyspetservices.com.

zTEXAS BEST FENCE — 500 E. State Hwy 121, #B; 972-245-0640; texasbestfence.com.

TITLE BOXING CLUB— 4140 Lemmon Ave. #275; 214-520-2964; titleboxingclub.com/dallas-uptown-tx.

TERRY THOMPSON PHOTOGRAPHY — 214-629-7663;360show.com.

*UPS STORE — 3824 Cedar Springs, #101; 214-683-8466.WOODYS GROOMING LOUNGE— 5610 Lemmon Ave.;

214-522-2887; woodysgroominglounge.com.

• sHopsALL OCCASIONS FLORIST — 3428 Oak Lawn; 214-528-0898;

alloccasionsdallas.com.*ART IS ART — 2811 N. Henderson Ave.; 214-823-8222; artis-

art.biz.*BISHOP ST. MARKET — 419 N. Bishop; 214-941-0907.BLUE SMOKE OF DALLAS— 4560 W. Mockingbird Ste. 102.,

469-358-2706; bluesmokeofdallas.com.BUD LIGHT — budlight.com.BUILDER’S SURPLUS — 2610 W. Miller Rd., 972-926-0100;

5832 E. Belnap, 817-831-3600.CHOCOLATE CASCADES OF TEXAS— 817-768-7540;

chocolatecascadestexas.com.*CONDOM SENSE — 4038 Cedar Springs; 214-552-3141.DULCE INTERIOR CONSIGNMENT — 2914 Oak Lawn;

214-827-7496; dallaspetalpusher.com.ECA VAPE1 — 2525 Inwood #125; 214-357-VAPE (8273);

ecavape1.com.FASHION OPTICAL — 3430 Oak Lawn; 214-526-6006;

fashionopticaldallas.com.FREEDOM FURNITURE — 13810 Welch Rd.; 972-385-7368.FURNITURE CONSIGNMENT GALLERY — 6000 Colleyville

Blvd.; 817-488-7333.; furnitureconsignmentgallery.net*GASPIPE — 4420 Maple Ave.; 214-526-5982.*GOODY GOODY LIQUOR — 3316 Oak Lawn, 214-252-0801.*HALF-PRICE BOOKS— 5803 E. Northwest Hwy;

2211 S. Cooper, Arlington.HARPER & HOUND— 2201 Long Prairie Rd. #630;

972-658-3896; Flower Mound; HarperandHound.comIMAGE EYEWEAR — 4268 Oak Lawn at Wycliff;

214-521-6763; imageeyewear.com.*KROGER — 4142 Cedar Springs; 214-599-9859.LONESTAR ARTISANS — 469-387-8581;

lonestarartisans.com.*LULA B’S WEST — 1010 N. Riverfront (Industrial);

214-749-1929: lula-bs.com.MITCHELL GOLD & BOB WILLAIMS— 4519 McKinney Ave.;

214-753-8700; mgbwdallas.com.OUTLINES MENSWEAR — 3906 Cedar Springs;

214-528-1955.*PETROPOLITAN — 408 S. Harwood; 214-741-4100.*PRIDE PRODUCTIONS — 4038 Cedar Springs;

214-219-9113.*SKIVVIES — 4001-C Cedar Springs; 214-559-4955.*TAPELENDERS — 3926 Cedar Springs; 214-528-6344.TEXAS SIAMESE RESCUE— 1123 N. Corinth; Cornith, TX;

940-367-7767; tx.siameserescue.org.THE VENUE WOW— 717 S. Good Latimer Expwy;

214-935-1650; thevenuenow.com.UPTOWN VISION — 2504 Cedar Springs; 214-953-EYES;

uptownvisiondallas.com.*WHITE ROCK SPORTS — 718 N Buckner Blvd, #108;

214-321-6979.*WHOLE FOODS MARKET — 2218 Greenville Ave.;

214-824-1744; Lemmon Ave. at Lomo Alto; 801 E. Lamar; Arlington.

*WINE MARKET— 3858 Oak Lawn; 214-219-6758.

• travelAMERICAN AIRLINES — 800-433-7300;

aavacations.com/rainbow.DOUG THOMPSON, CRUISE ONE— 3824 Cedar Springs,

#559; cruiseone.com.HOTEL TRINITY— 2000 Beach St.; 817-534-4801.;

hoteltrinityfortworth.comTHE PAUER GROUP - CRUISE EXPERTS— 972-241-2000;

thepaurgroup.com.GAYRIBBEAN CRUISES — 214-303-1924;

gayribbeancruises.com.

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You know that lawsuit against Bryan Singer, pic-tured, and others about sexually abusing maleyouths in the ’90s? Well, it looks like that entire situa-tion might be going away … or at least on hiatus, aswe say in the biz. In the weeks since Michael Eganbrought his allegations against the director and sev-eral other Hollywood hotshots,his recollections have provento be far less reliable than ini-tially thought. In the midst ofhis mounting credibility issue,Singer’s lawyers swooped inand made an offer of$100,000 to settle, without theadmission of any guilt. It ap-pears that Egan’s lawyers fa-vored such an arrangement, and Singer’s peopledrew up the agreement. Singer even signed it. Butwhen push came to shove, Egan nixed it. “This exactkind of take-it-and-shut-up deal is why I decided tostand up in the first place. Being silenced goes com-pletely against what I believe in and offers no protec-tion for other vulnerable children.” Ah, there it is —he’s not holding out for more money ... he’s doingthis for the children! While these platitudes mightsound convincing, apparently his lawyers feel differ-ently: “We are in the process of withdrawing fromrepresenting Mr. Egan in all his cases and have nofurther comment concerning his matters at this time.”And that says it all.

Last year, Michelle Rodriguez finally opened up

about her own dalliances with women. She nowpresents herself as a bisexual, although I must admitI’ve never been able to picture her in a sexual rela-tionship with a man. Nothing has swayed this belief,including the many photos and videos of her cavort-ing with Zac Efron. Please — as if sleeping with ZacEfron proves you like men. If anything, I suppose itonly proves that Michelle is a top!

I just spent a magical weekend in Provincetownthat certainly didn’t start out so promising. Just beforeI arrived, I got a call from the hunky proprietor of theCrown & Anchor, Rick Murray, informing me that Liza

Minnelli was cancelling herappearance in concert withAlan Cumming, due to aback injury. Alan soldieredon to do a solo concert, witha portion of his fee going tothe Trevor Project. Althoughmany of those in attendancehadn’t seen Cumming livebefore, he won them overwithin minutes of hitting the

stage with a subversive rendition of “Mein Herr.”Cumming is not simply a singer; he’s an actor whosings. Rarely have I seen an audience so rapt — youcould hear a pin drop. Given the audience demo-graphic, it definitely didn’t hurt that Cumming’s peniswas hanging to the right and clearly visible in hisleather pants. I don’t believe anyone left that eveningfeeling shortchanged.

The next night, I was off to the P’town Art Housefor the incomparable Marilyn Maye, more than ablyassisted by the dashing Billy Stritch. On openingnight, there was Bob Mackie (who made Marilyn’sensemble); on closing night, Billie Jean King; in be-tween, Carol Channing and Tommy Tune. Need-less to say, if you ever get the chance to see Marilyn

Maye, go — she’s one of a kind.Carol and Tommy were in Provincetown to appear

at Town Hall. In light of Liza’s cancellation, somewondered if the 93-year-old Channing would actuallyappear. They needn’t have worried — if Carol wasbreathing, she’d be there. The way Tommy had de-vised the show, he’d welcome the capacity crowd,warm us up, set the stage and then bring on Carol toanswer questions about her storied career.

Two other moments stand out. First, you will findvery few people who will say anything against thebeloved Betty White (even Bea Arthur never pub-

licly spoke against her … although Betty confirmedtheir issues after Bea’s death). Channing talkedabout doing a show with Betty which also featuredMax the baboon. Apparently, Carol was told to sit inthe cage with Max for a while so that he could getused to her scent. This went OK initially, but onceMax got agitated, Carol dashed out, was chased byMax, and ended up panting in the production roomwith the cast. Betty looked at Carol and laconicallysaid, “Oh, Carol, we all had to get used to you atfirst!”

The highlight of the show was when Tommy askedCarol to recite the famous “Ephraim” speech fromHello, Dolly, where she talks about wanting to rejointhe human race. She fumbled a bit with the openingand said, “Let me start over.” Carol went back to thebeginning and did the entire speech flawlessly withenormous warmth and conviction, and then immedi-ately launched into the first verse of “Before the Pa-rade Passes By.” There wasn’t a dry eye in thehouse.

By the time you read this, Sherri and Jenny willhave left The View, and the show will be on summerhiatus. And yet, it’s still making news each and everyday. As I already reported, executive producer BillGeddie is out. Taking his place will be Bill Wolff, ex-ecutive producer of The Rachel Maddow Show. Asto who will fill the vacant co-host seats, we are toldthat ABC did tests with nine ladies alongsideWhoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell. They are(in alphabetical order): S.E. Cupp, October Gonza-lez, Jemele Hill, Sunny Hostin, Kayleigh McE-nany, Ana Navarro, Stephanie Ruhle, LaurenSanchez, Sage Steele and Nicolle Wallace. All ofthe women have previously guest hosted. Sanchezhas the distinction of having been considered for thegig before the show hired Lisa Ling in 1999.Meghan McCain was reportedly invited to test, butdeclined.

When everyone but Rachel Campos is beingtested for The View, we’ve definitely come to the endof yet another column. Phew! That was a lot of workfor me ... especially for the summer. But I’ve gottakeep things fresh on BillyMasters.com, the site thatnever sleeps. We didn’t have room to answer aquestion this week, but I’m always available for yourqueries. Just send ‘em along and I promise to getback to you before the parade passes by!

Until next time, remember: One man’s filth is an-other man’s bible.

You can email Billy at [email protected].

Betty White’s adoll ... as long asyou’re not on the

same show as her.”— Carol Channing“


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Making the SCENE the week of August 15–21:

Alexandre’s: Jason Huff on Friday at 10 p.m. Mi Diva Loca on Saturday at 10 p.m. Sheran Keaton on Wednesday at

9 p.m. Alicia Silex on Thursday at 9 p.m.:

Club Changes: Miss Le Femme 2015 on Saturday at 9 p.m.

Club Reflection: Cowtown Leatherman cookout on Sunday at 4 p.m. International Gay Rodeo Association show on

Sunday at 7 pm.

Dallas Eagle: Pegasus Slowpitch Softball Association (PSSA) and the Gay World Series event on Friday at 10 p.m.

DFW Leather Corps seminar on Saturday from 2-4 p.m. National Leather Association – Dallas monthly bar night on

Saturday at 7 p.m. United Court of the Lone Star Empire presents CPR's Masquerade Ball on Saturday from 6-10

p.m. Miss Wanda and Friends Comedy Show on Thursday at 9 p.m.

Garlow's: Toys for Tots benefit on Saturday at 9 p.m.

JR.’s Bar & Grill: NetChix with Krystal and Asia on Monday. JR's Potluck with Edna Jean, Onyx, Alana, Stefani, Alexis

and Chanel LaMasters on Tuesday. Edna's Angels on Thursday

Round-Up Saloon: Dallas Pitches car wash fundraiser on Saturday from noon-3 p.m. Dallas Bears holds a Teddy

Bear Auction on Sunday at 7 p.m.

S4: Gaybingo on Saturday at 6 p.m.

Sue Ellen’s: The Bright on Friday. Miss Marcy and the Texas Sugar Daddies on Saturday. Jason Huff and the Ignition

on Sunday. •To view more Scene photos, go to DallasVoice.com/category/photos. Scene Photographer: Kat Haygood.

Aime, Ginda and Dru at Sue Ellen’s.

Boyfriends on the block.

Chase at Alexandre’s. David at Kaliente.

Devious at Randy’s Club Cherries. Eugene and Josh at JR.’s Bar & Grill.


August 15 Jason Huff and BandAugust 16 Mi Diva LocaAugust 20 Liz MikelAugust 21 Alicia SilexAugust 22 Kristen MajorsAugust 23 Londee IghileeAugust 27 Lala JohnsonAugust 28 Alicia SilexAugust 29 Carlos SaenzAugust 30 Bad Habits

Every Sunday & Tuesday Karaoke with Lil Chalupa

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Erin’s birthday at the Round-Up Saloon.

Girl’s Night Out on the block.

John and Tony at Woody’s Sports and Video Bar.Hope and Josue at Grapevine Bar.


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